From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 BuildID: 2002031104 if mozilla is not allowed to change the statusbar text (prefs->advanced->scripts & windows), scripts on pages that use window.status stop working. An errormessage is seen in the javascript console ("error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to set property Window.Defaultstatus") Now pages that are otherwise ok (DOM-compliant) won't work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to prefs->advanced->scripts & windows 2. Uncheck "change statusbar text" 3. Close and then restart mozilla 4. Visit any page with a statusbar message Actual Results: All javascript on page stops working. Expected Results: ignore the statusbar-message and run the rest of the script as it should

See bug 117707 for more information... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117707 ***

Verified duplicate. Anca: thank you for this report. You have been cc'ed on the duplicate bug so you may follow its progress -