Status bar has disappeared
Stan Goodman
A day or so ago, I noticed that the status line, which had been present
and helpful for many years, is suddenly absent.
My first reaction was that perhaps for some reason the Download
Statusbar addon (which is present) is suddenly overwriting the other
content, but this is not the case: even when this addon is disabled, the
status bar is not seen.
How may I find the cause of this behavior?
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
C A Upsdell
It is a "feature" of FF4.
Christian Riechers
The status bar has been replaced with the add-on bar in FF4.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-add-bar
To restore the FF3.6 behavior, install the Status-4-Evar add-on.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-happened-status-bar#w_how-can-i-get-the-old-status-bar-back
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Christian
JohnQPublic
news:mailman.359.130593129...@lists.mozilla.org...
It's non-existent in FF4+...
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JQP
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
First, do View => Toolbars => check "addon-bar" and then install the
extension Status-4-Evar that Christian recommended.
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*Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion*
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Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird
Ron Hunter
FF4.01 eliminated the status bar in favor of a better documented, and
maintainable 'add ons bar'. You can turn it on by selecting
view/toolbars/ add-ons bar. Most of the add-ons that put things in the
status bar will then use the add-ons bar. Also, you can install
Status-4-Evar extension that will return the other functions formerly on
the status bar.
David McRitchie
"Christian Riechers" <chrie...@netscape.net.invalid> wrote in message news:he2dnS3gDJuwZUvQ...@mozilla.org...
Hi Stan,
To help you with the options of Status-4-Evar, I put together a web page
http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/status4evar.htm
The addons bar is the only toolbar to have it's own shortcut Ctrl+/ to toggle it on and off.
Though the Alt key will display the menubar temporarily in Firefox and other browsers.
Ctrl+L and Ctrl+K will bring up the location bar and the search bar and place the cursor inside..
Stan Goodman
<chrie...@netscape.net.invalid> wrote:
> On 05/21/2011 12:40 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > This is Firefox v4.0.1, running under openSuSE v11.3.
> >
> > A day or so ago, I noticed that the status line, which had been
> > present and helpful for many years, is suddenly absent.
> >
> > My first reaction was that perhaps for some reason the Download
> > Statusbar addon (which is present) is suddenly overwriting the
> > other content, but this is not the case: even when this addon is
> > disabled, the status bar is not seen.
> >
> > How may I find the cause of this behavior?
>
> The status bar has been replaced with the add-on bar in FF4.
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-add-bar
Thank you for this clue.
But, in my ignorance, I previously restored the renamed bar another
(more complicated) way. My thought was that some extension was causing
the problem, so I disabled all the addons (which is also a cute new
feature); since that didn't change anything, I then reenabled them all
-- voila, the bar is back.
Your way is better. ;-)
> To restore the FF3.6 behavior, install the Status-4-Evar add-on.
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-happened-status-bar#w_how-ca
> n-i-get-the-old-status-bar-back
Stan Goodman
<fire...@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Christian Riechers" <chrie...@netscape.net.invalid> wrote in
> message news:he2dnS3gDJuwZUvQ...@mozilla.org...
>
> > On 05/21/2011 12:40 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
> >> This is Firefox v4.0.1, running under openSuSE v11.3.
> >>
> >> A day or so ago, I noticed that the status line, which had been
> >> present and helpful for many years, is suddenly absent.
> >>
> >> My first reaction was that perhaps for some reason the Download
> >> Statusbar addon (which is present) is suddenly overwriting the
> >> other content, but this is not the case: even when this addon is
> >> disabled, the status bar is not seen.
> >>
> >> How may I find the cause of this behavior?
> >
> > The status bar has been replaced with the add-on bar in FF4.
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-add-bar
> >
> > To restore the FF3.6 behavior, install the Status-4-Evar add-on.
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-happened-status-bar#w_how-
> > can-i-get-the-old-status-bar-back
>
> Hi Stan,
> To help you with the options of Status-4-Evar, I put together a web
> page http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/status4evar.htm
>
> The addons bar is the only toolbar to have it's own shortcut Ctrl+/
Aha! That clears up the mystery of how the bar vanished in the first
place. I must have somehow pressed CTRL/ inadvertently.
> to toggle it on and off. Though the Alt key will display the
> menubar temporarily in Firefox and other browsers. Ctrl+L and Ctrl+K
> will bring up the location bar and the search bar and place the
> cursor inside..
>
>
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