status bar should wrap in firefox

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If the status bar is displaying a long line of information (for example, when I right-click on a very long link and mouse-over the "Modify Link" option in the context menu), then the line doesn't wrap, but forces xinha to expand to the size of the line of text. This only seems to happen in firefox, not ie.

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Another problem, in the same situation, crops up in IE, where the status bar wraps as would be expected and/or desired, but when the message becomes short enough to no longer require wrapping, there becomes a white space below the status bar equivalent to the extra height added when the message was wrapped. I will attach screenshots for both situations.

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Firefox 1.0.4 - Status Bar Normal

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Firefox 1.0.4 - Expanded

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IE 6 - Expanded

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IE 6 - Whitespace after Expansion

[Artus]

It's certainly not the best thing to do, but I added the line:

  statusbar.style.overflow = "hidden";

to _createStatusBar. This seems to prevent the resizing in Firfox, but the line isn't broken, but cut off. Is there a way, to force Firefox to break in a long string?