FF 3.6.15 Change StatusBar Text

MikeyG

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Mar 5, 2011, 3:38:44 PM3/5/11

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FF 3.6.15 Change StatusBar Text is CHECKED in Option/Content but don't
work? Java is in plugins. Statusbar displays only the HREF of Code not
the OnMouseOver. Anyone else notice this? - MikeyG

Ralph Fox

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Mar 5, 2011, 5:46:29 PM3/5/11

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On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:38:44 -0600, in message <poqdnXU8XO2kAu_Q...@mozilla.org>
MikeyG wrote:

> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9

> FF 3.6.15 Change StatusBar Text is CHECKED in Option/Content but don't
> work? Java is in plugins. Statusbar displays only the HREF of Code not
> the OnMouseOver. Anyone else notice this? - MikeyG

1) It works in the HTML test page below, using Firefox 3.6.15
and with "Change status bar text" CHECKED.
I just tested it now.

2) FYI the Java plugin is not relevant. Java is not JavaScript.

HTML test page...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cut~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<hr>
Wave your mouse over the <b
onmouseover="window.status='Mouse is over the bold text';"
onmouseout="window.status='Mouse is not over the bold text';">bold text</b>
and look at the status bar.
<hr>
</body>
</html>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cut~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Kind regards
Ralph

MikeyG

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Mar 5, 2011, 9:46:36 PM3/5/11

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I pasted the code to wordpad and saved as an htm; it worked. But on this
page as an example it don't ...
http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/status-msg.php ... all in
the code I guess.

Keith Nuttle

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Mar 5, 2011, 10:22:53 PM3/5/11

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works for me FF.3.6.15

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 6:01:51 AM3/6/11

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Well, poop! I guess I got some investigative work to do.

David Pyles

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Mar 6, 2011, 8:37:22 AM3/6/11

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For what it's worth, it doesn't work in IE9 or Chrome either.
Dave Pyles

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 11:22:50 AM3/6/11

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I just, hate it when trivial little stuff like this bugs the poo poo
outa' me! ... By the by, the other trivial is that I can not deselect
Submit Crash Reports in Options / Content. ... and some Addons install
but don't show up in the Menus when they are supposed to ... rrrrrr.

gabor

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Mar 6, 2011, 11:58:16 AM3/6/11

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On Saturday, March 5, 2011 10:22:53 PM UTC-5, Keith Nuttle wrote:
> On 3/5/2011 9:46 PM, MikeyG wrote:
> > On 3/5/2011 4:46 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
> >> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:38:44 -0600, in
> >> message
>

I'm still working with 3.6.14 but here's what I found:
Setting dom.disable_window_status_change to false as
described in the link, I saw the mouse-over changes
but only when NOT over a link. When hovering
on a link, the status bar always shows the link
address, not the script from the mouse-over.
So for example, when the status bar would normally
say "Done" when not over a link I would instead see
"Enjoy Reading JavaScript Tutorials", but I don't
see the "www.google.com" when I hover over the
"visit google" link. Instead I see
"http://www.plus2net.com"

-- Gabor

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 12:18:20 PM3/6/11

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yep, same here.

David Pyles

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Mar 6, 2011, 1:45:52 PM3/6/11

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On my copy of 3.6.15, the "Submit Crash Reports" selection is at
Options/Advanced/General tab.

What Addons are giving you trouble?
Dave Pyles

Ralph Fox

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Mar 6, 2011, 2:18:48 PM3/6/11

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The onMouseOut text works for, me but the onMouseOver text does not work in
MikeyG's example http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/status-msg.php .
Using Firefox 3.6.15.

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Kind regards
Ralph

EE

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Mar 6, 2011, 3:09:41 PM3/6/11

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I looked at that page. The link that says Visit Google would tell you
that it would go to www.google.com if you allow sites to change text on
the status bar. If you disable that, you get the true destination of
that link, which is www.plus2net.com. Why would you want to be
deceived like that?

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 3:36:00 PM3/6/11

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I believe it was named 'ViewAbout' (supposed to be in Tools Menu -
supposed to list all the 'about:' commands) & 'sqlite' addon, don't
recall actual name.

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 3:36:35 PM3/6/11

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yep, same here.

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 3:40:40 PM3/6/11

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My awareness of this situation started when I was messing around with an
old web page I used to have on line, when I used an ISP that offered web
service. I was messing with it offline, locally, and I have links that
have onmouseover and onmouseout texts, and I discovered it wouldn't display.

David Pyles

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Mar 6, 2011, 3:57:00 PM3/6/11

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On my system, the SQLite Manager extension shows in the tools menu. Is
that where you're looking for it?

The ViewAbout page says the following:
Enables access to various about: dialogs from the View menu."
So take a look at the bottom of the View menu.
Dave Pyles

MikeyG

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Mar 6, 2011, 6:53:40 PM3/6/11

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Yes, Dave, you are correct on both, I could not recall for sure. Both of
these addons did install, but after restart of firefox they were not in
these menus; I just uninstalled them.