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stingrey

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Registered: 7/16/2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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posted on 7/16/2004 at 07:32 PM

status bar message not working in Firefox

Firstly excellent product and thanks for making it freely available : )

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Some Background:
I create add-ons for the Open Source CMS Mambo http://mamboserver.com/

Now I've been working over the last few days to allow the Tigra Menu to be added onto any Mambo site through a simple add-on package (called a module in Mambo).

I've basically completed it as can be seen by the demonstration area on my site:
http://www.stingrey.biz/component/option,com_demo-dmt/Itemid,125/

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Now the thing is I've noticed that in IE the status bar message works as it should.
However in Firefox 0.8 on XP it doesnt seem to work.
Is this a bug??

As it works in IE, I dont think there is anything wrong with my code and you can see from the source code of the page that everything looks right.

tigra

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posted on 7/17/2004 at 01:14 AM

Basically we set status bar message like this:
In onmouseover event we set small timeout after which message is written to status bar. Timeout is to give browser time to print standard message for the links (URL) and then overwrite it. If one prints status bar message immediately it gets overwritten by default text.

I'm not sure what sort of problem firefox has with this simple code:

window.setTimeout("window.status=unescape('hello, I am status bar message.')");

Let us know if you investigate this issue.