We use the wonderful JQueryUI tabs on our webapp and found an issue which only appears in Chrome after we moved to a recent version of JQueryUI.

I created a bug http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/9148 but apparently what I'm seeing is expected behavior. Any suggestions on how to solve our problem?

Essentially - Chrome's lower status bar shows after you click on a tab and move your mouse around the tab content. Other browsers show the link only when the mouse is hovering over the tab. Our webapp has its own status bar which is obscured by Chromes status bar.

Here's an example  http://jsfiddle.net/Ky2sh/5/

I understand this happens because the anchor element of the tab is focused... but how would I blur this without breaking tabs functionality?

Cheers,

Wilson.