I can confirm this issues as reproducable in the most recent Mozilla upstream release. Issue report opened upstream.
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #363525 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363525 ** Also affects: firefox (upstream) via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363525 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- URLs containing Arabic text display improperly in the statusbar. https://launchpad.net/bugs/53135 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
