Unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7,10, Mac 10.12.6 & ubuntu 14.04 using chrome reported version#60.0.3112.113 ,stable#61.0.3163.79 & latest Canary#63.0.3206.0 as per C#0.

Able to view href value in the status bar while the page is still loading.

Please find the attached screencast for reference & let us know your observations on the same.If still issue exists,please provide the URl where you observed the issue with screenshots.

Thank you..!!

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Unable to reproduce this issue on Windows-10 using chrome latest stable M62-61.0.3163.100.

Due to lack of user response closing this issue, please raise a new issue if you come across the similar issue on any of the latest chrome version.

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Thanks for looking into this. Unfortunately, I don't think this has been examined correctly.

First of all, the demo posted by user "jmukthavaram" does not seem to properly attempt to reproduce this problem. The page being loaded in that case is loading extra resources asynchronously using infinite scroll. I don't believe that kind of "loading" is going to reproduce the problem. It doesn't do so in the demo, and it doesn't do so in my testing either.

I've attached a video screencast to demonstrate the problem correctly. Please pay close attention to the status bar as I'm hovering the mouse over two different links. It's not as obvious on the first link (the "PDF and HTML format" link) but it's much more obvious on the second link (the "moved to GitHub" link).

While I'm hovering over the second link (between 0:07 and 0:11 in the video), you can clearly see that the browser's "Waiting for..." message in the status bar takes precedence over the href value of the link, which is also supposed to appear in the status bar. Eventually, the href value appears, but only after all the resources have finished loading.

So again, this is a UX issue. It's not very useful to a user to see what resources are loading and what those resources are named in the status bar. But it is useful for a user to see the value of the href of the link being hovered. The "Waiting for..." messages should not overrule the href value in the status bar, and the user shouldn't have to wait until all resources are finished loading before see the value of the href in the status bar.

I hope this is more clear now. Thank you!

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I get the same issue too, exactly as shown in the video. Currently using Mac but it happened on Linux too. It's affected Chrome for years, as long as I can remember.

To be clear, I don't think this is a "bug" in the sense of something behaving differently than expected. I think this is expected behaviour but should be changed to improve usability.