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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 11/1/2010 11:59 AM, Heiko Nitzsche wrote:   
   >>>> Only question I have: Does anybody miss the status bar at the   
   >>>> bottom? Here   
   >>>> it's missing. There is also no menu item in 'View' to switch the   
   >>>> status bar   
   >>>> on or off. The windows version of FF4b6 has both... Is it only me   
   >>>> having   
   >>>> these issues or is it worth to raise a bug?   
   >>>   
   >>> The powers-that-be didn't like the status bar and had indicated long ago   
   >>> that they were going to get rid of it. View->Toolbars has an 'Add-on   
   >>> bar'   
   >>> option that puts a bar at the bottom of the window but the browser   
   >>> itself   
   >>> doesn't use it. There may be an option to restore it but I couldn't   
   >>> find it in about:config.   
   >>   
   >> That is: There is a deliberate design choice to get rid of it cross   
   >> platform?   
   >> Then I have to double check my windows version of ff4 - there the   
   >> status bar   
   >> is still available.   
   >   
   > Status bar on FF4 has been removed with FF4b7pre (I think) and there   
   > seems to   
   > be no plan to bring it back.   
      
   I can't believe that -- do we get a vote?   
      
   I turn off all the other "bars" as useless wastes of real-estate, but I    
   always check the status bar before clicking on a link to make sure I'm    
   getting what I think I'm getting.   
      
      
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