User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Open any page with a link at the bottom of the screen, where the dynamic status bar would appear. This page should have a "Privacy Policy" link in the right location. Another example is the bottom "Full Story" link on http://www.hearinglossweb.com/tech/ha/unusl/unusl.htm#real Hover the mouse over the link and dynamic status bar shows up for a moment, obscuring the link from view. At that point, mouse is on top of the status bar and it disappears (probably an attempt to fix a different bug with obscuring content). The status bar continues flickering on and off, not allowing user to click on the link (and not showing up long enough to let the user see the URL) This is a bug in 4.0RC -- don't think it's reasonable to release it if user can't even click a link Reproducible: Always

I can confirm this bug. Happens very often to me when links or buttons are positioned at the bottom left of a website. Very annoying, should be fixed really soon. Always reproducible!

Note: Chromium works around this by moving the status bar away from the cursor, but it always moves down (offscreen) -- so the status bar is not really readable at that point. Maybe a better solution would be to move it up/above the cursor.

(In reply to comment #2) > Note: Chromium works around this by moving the status bar away from the cursor, > but it always moves down (offscreen) -- so the status bar is not really > readable at that point. Maybe a better solution would be to move it up/above > the cursor. Maybe it tries to move it down, but it comes back to the old position immediately and so causes the flickering and the inability to click on the link. So this is not a solution at all. :-)

I'm able to repro this in Firefox 5.0 on Windows XP SP3. I'm in Yahoo mail, and I can't delete my messages because of the flickering. - Perhaps Firefox can detect the cursor position. Display status bar in opposite corner. I would like to see an option to enable the old status bar (without download an addon for it). Perhaps it could go under View -> Toolbars -> Status Bar -> Classic / New (Minimal).

I can confirm this in Firefox 8.0 on Mac OS X 10.6. Various pages have links in the lower left corner, but you can't click them because of this bug. I have to resort to reading the page source, getting the URL and pasting into the location bar to get past it. If the link doesn't have an associated URL but rather an attached event handler for the click event, you lose.

(In reply to Kevin Lepeska from comment #4) > I'm able to repro this in Firefox 5.0 on Windows XP SP3. I'm in Yahoo mail, > and I can't delete my messages because of the flickering. > > - Perhaps Firefox can detect the cursor position. Display status bar in > opposite corner. > > I would like to see an option to enable the old status bar (without download > an addon for it). Perhaps it could go under View -> Toolbars -> Status Bar > -> Classic / New (Minimal). UPDATE: I'm using a Firefox addon called "Status-4-Evar" to get the old status bar. (It's sad that people have to develop addons to fix Mozilla's **** bugs.) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/

I can confirm that bug still present with FF 8 on WinXP SP3. Nasty with any link residing at the end of the page. Interestingly the dynamic link display sometimes shows at the top of the content area, overlapping the tab bar (nothing bad with that ...). In that place it's mostly harmless ... dunno what causes that position and why it does not allways appear there.

Had the same problem, but found a quick fix: Open the "find" toolbar (cmd+f on Mac) at the bottom of the page, then the status bar moves to the lower right. Happy clicking :)

I also confirm the “find” toolbar circumvents the issue at hand; however, please someone take the trouble to fix this bug.

I'd like to add that in Internet Explorer 9 there is a menu item to return to the old status bar behaviour of having a separate panel below the page content view port (View > Tool bars > Status bar).