Oct 25, 2010

Firefox 4 status bar breakage

Ugh. I just noticed that as of the beta8 milestone, Firefox 4 has removed the status bar. You know, that little bar at the bottom of the window where it shows the URL when you mouse over it?  It's now the AddOn Bar, and it's disable by default. It took me a bit of digging to get my addons back: Under View->Toolbars, check the "Add-on Bar" item. Now about those URLs. When you mouse over a link it shows up in the "Awesome Bar". I guess that's OK, though it really needs to be a few shades darker grey to be readable.

I don't know why they made the change, but I bet some other browser *cough*chrome*cough* did it first and the FF people feel the need to copy it. Bletch.

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