Weird status bar thing

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  1. tech4all, Apr 18, 2005

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    I was looking at images at Google. When I clicked on this one image that went to a Tripod site, the status bar said something like, 'uploading C drive', or something. As soon as I saw it I pressed back. Here is a link to the Google page. The image is the one with black squares called that appear to have small white blinking dots on the corners, "slide.jpg". I got a little spooked, but the thing is on a Mac, there is no C drive. And on my PC I don't get that weird status bar thing. What gives?
     
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  2. HexMonkey, Apr 19, 2005

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    I think it's just there as a joke. I looked at the page's source and all it's doing is changing the status bar text. As further evidence, it has function names like "faketake" and "fakeformat".

    Here's a direct link to the page for anyone who's interested.
     
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  3. IanC, Apr 19, 2005

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    Thats pretty clever
    *wonders if any of his friends will be fooled by this*
     
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  4. tech4all, Apr 19, 2005

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    Some joke, scared me half to death :mad: :( :eek: Course saying C Drive kinda makes it useless for Mac users as we don't have C Drives :D

    But I'm wondering why it didn't work on my PC with Firefox....? Not unless I didn't wait long enough as it said it was downloading something, which I think had to do with the ads Tripod is famous for.
     
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  5. yellow, Apr 19, 2005

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    Hmm I don't see that at all.. (Safari 1.3)
     
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  6. tech4all, Apr 19, 2005

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    Safari 1.2.2 here.
     
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  7. IJ Reilly, Apr 19, 2005

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    Make sure you've got your status bar turned ON in the View menu of Safari.
     
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  8. HexMonkey, Apr 19, 2005

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    At some stage (sometime after version 0.9) they turned this functionality off by default. You can turn it on by opening the preferences, clicking the "Advanced" button next to "Enable JavaScript" in the "Web Features" pane, then selecting "Change status bar text".
     
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  9. James Philp, Apr 19, 2005

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    Ha. Ha. H......mmmm
    Very funny, Yeah.
    Just goes to show that that could actually happen on a Wintel!!

    OMG: It actually HAS deleted my C:\ Drive! What do I do! I just did a search for it but it's gone! :p
     
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