re: accidental discovery /status bar

Chulann

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Feb 7, 2010, 7:32:22 PM2/7/10

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An earlier thread about accidental discovery talks about clicking on the
status bar.
I seem to have a problem that I never noticed before. I have no status
bar. Toggling View|Status Bar has no effect on the screen whatsoever.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
I am running TB3.0/Lightning1.0b2pre on Viscrap.

Ken Whiton

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Feb 8, 2010, 2:34:50 AM2/8/10

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*-* On Sun, 07 Feb 2010, at 19:32:22 -0500,
*-* In Article <h8OdnR7f9fUCxvLW...@mozilla.org>,
*-* Chulann wrote
*-* About re: accidental discovery /status bar

Are you running TB full screen or in a window? I'm guessing that
you're running in a window and you've simply moved it down low enough
on the screen that its status bar is hidden behind the Windows Task Bar.

Ken Whiton
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Chulann

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Feb 8, 2010, 7:56:18 AM2/8/10

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On 2/8/2010 2:34 AM, Ken Whiton wrote:
> *-* On Sun, 07 Feb 2010, at 19:32:22 -0500,
> *-* In Article<h8OdnR7f9fUCxvLW...@mozilla.org>,
> *-* Chulann wrote
> *-* About re: accidental discovery /status bar
>
>> An earlier thread about accidental discovery talks about clicking on
>> the status bar.
>> I seem to have a problem that I never noticed before. I have no
>> status bar. Toggling View|Status Bar has no effect on the screen
>> whatsoever.
>> Anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
>> I am running TB3.0/Lightning1.0b2pre on Viscrap.
>
> Are you running TB full screen or in a window? I'm guessing that
> you're running in a window and you've simply moved it down low enough
> on the screen that its status bar is hidden behind the Windows Task Bar.
>
> Ken Whiton

I run everything in windows mode, and there is no problem caused by the
task bar. I have tried disabling all add-ons, (including lightning) and
trying all variations of view layout. No effect. I have also tested on
an XP based machine, and even there I do not see a status bar for the TB
program. I am still not certain what advantage there is to a status
bar, Its just that the earlier thread piqued my interest.
Chulann

Ron Hunter

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Feb 8, 2010, 5:21:31 PM2/8/10

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The status bar is used to display messages like 'connecting to xxx.com'
and 'No new messages on server'. If you have an error, it might display
there so you could investigate.
If you don't have it, something is amiss somewhere.
Try View/status bar to see if it is checked. If not, click to toggle it on.

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Ron Hunter -- rphu...@charter.net

Chulann

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Feb 9, 2010, 7:38:53 AM2/9/10

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Gets more and more interesting. Yes that is information I would like to
see. At the moment the only way I know is if I press 'get mail' and it
pops-up 'folder is still processing'. As for the toggle, see my first
post - I have tried that and every other variation on View and
layout settings. Also tried with disabling all my add-ons (with
associated restarts). Is there a setting in the Chrome/Config file that
affects this?
-Chulann

Chulann

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Feb 9, 2010, 2:20:05 PM2/9/10

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On 02/08/10 5:21 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:

I found it.
it was a setting (somehow) in my userChrome.css which set the status bar
display to none.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Chulann