Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Statusbar
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Customizable Status Bar
Allow the Status Bar to be customized like the toolbars can. Any toolbar button should be able to be put on the status bar and vice/versa
- Add a percentage of loading on the statusbar, and allow the statusbar to be hide by the page, when the loading is finished, so it will be increase the viewing surface, and when the mouth pass by a link, the status bar would reapear, it would be very useful and nice.
- See Status Buttons extension, which already implements this idea.
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Take over Statusbar
The only thing I really need the Statusbar for is to preview the target address of links before clicking them. Most of the time the statusbar is just taking away screen space without providing any useful information.
If it would be possible to display the target location in the Address Bar (it really is the right part to show an address...), perhaps in another color (or perhaps only showing the changed part of the URL in a different color) then the statusbar would not be needed any more.
- Commentary
I would like to have the possibility to add the search function (Ctrl + F) permanently to the status bar
Automatically hide statusbar when idle
I agree the statusbar is very useful, mainly for seeing the URL of a link (so much so that it's the reason I don't use firefox in full-screen mode). However most of the time no useful information is shown, just 'Done' and a lot of grey. When the statusbar is in this state, why not automatically hide it to show more of the webpage?
Non-author opinion: This should be an optional setting, not mandatory. Some people modify the status bar with add-ons such as IE Tab, Update Notifier, or any text-to-speech extension. Letting the status bar disappear automatically would be a great grief to these people.