[Ieview] Does the new version change the status line size ?

[Paul Roub]

Peter Smith wrote:
> Strange behaviour, used IEView with Firefox 1.5 Beta2 and it works a 
> short time until the Firefox crashes every time even when clicking only 
> on "Options".
> I deinstalled Firefox 1.5b2 and reused 1.07, which was still using 
> IEView1.24 (it was installed with this Fierfox version, I changed to 
> 1.5b2 and had to update IEView also at the same time).
> BUT, STRANGE: Now I got a status line which was about 4 to 5 times 
> bigger (height) than before (it consumes the space for rendering  pages !).
> 
> I removed IEView 1.24 and used 1.261 - and the status line shrinks to 
> the normal size back.
> 
> What's going on ?
> 

What locale/language are you running?  If there is a string encoding 
problem, Firefox has a nasty habit of using the expanded status line to 
display a partial (sometimes empty) error message.

-paul