Comment 2 for bug 257972

Try this:
1) Open preferences -> Advanced
2) uncheck "Show progress bars for transfers"
3) Close preferences with OK
4) Status column should now be ok, without progress bar
5) Open preferences and recheck the progress bars for transfers
6) Click Ok

What does the statusbar look like now? It works for me after these steps, problem is that after next restart progress bars are broken again.

If you move the time column next to the status column and restart (with progress bars enabled), does it show time text instead of speed?

What are your distro and gtk -versions?

--RZ