It really does mean that. And yes, it's consequently a bad idea to click on a link in an email, ever (unless you're sufficiently clueful, but it's a really bad idea to mention that possibility to someone who isn't, because they think they are).
I go into the Advanced thingy under the preferences for JavaScript in Firefox and disable "change status bar text" (and everything else except the accursed "change images"). Besides my real purpose, disabling obnoxious marquees, this lets me trust my status bar again (not that I do).
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I go into the Advanced thingy under the preferences for JavaScript in Firefox and disable "change status bar text" (and everything else except the accursed "change images"). Besides my real purpose, disabling obnoxious marquees, this lets me trust my status bar again (not that I do).