var statusTextFld = document.getElementById("statusbar-display");
statusTextFld.label = "blah";
with
XULWindowBrowser.setStatusText("blah");
irkregent wrote:I'm not seeing either the "Progress meter" or "status text" items in the Customize Toolbars dialog box, but I don't blame this on your extension. I suspect some other extension is breaking the display of any non-standard items there. All I see are the built-in items, and none from any extensions.
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a bug with the profile.
Try
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Or disable your extensions one-by-one until things start working
( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox )