Change link mouseover text on the bottom of a browser window

Question

You know that text that appears in the bottom left of your browser when you mouseover a link? How do you change that?

I\'m a competent programmer so I don\'t need a code

Answer 1

In old browsers, you could set the property window.status to modify the text in the status bar. Because this holds serious security issues (the user could be tricked into clicking on a link which leads to another target), all modern browsers deactivated this feature.