Reclaim Statusbar Space in Firefox with Statusable
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Firefox Add-ons, tags: Add-ons, Firefox, Freeware, Independent Review, Software, Utilities, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XPMore About What it Does in Detail:
Statusable installs just like any other Firefox add-on and is available at the Mozilla Add-ons website here.
Quote from the Add-ons page:
Long Description
Installing multiple extensions progressively clutters the statusbar with labels and icons; space allocated to the standard statusbar text shrinks to a point where it’s not usable anymore.
Statusable is a Firefox extension that creates a second statusbar, reserved for the progress bar and standard statusbar text (usually used for link destinations).Works with:
- Firefox: 1.0 – 3.0.*
There is also a developers page at http://ptaff.ca/statusable/?lang=en_CA
General Use of Statusable
This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.
(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)
Once installed Statusable displays an extra statusbar at the bottom of the Firefox window in the Firefox Find bar:
These display different text depending on what is happening:
In the above example (which only shows part of the whole statusbar area) the Statusable bar is at the bottom and shows that Firefox is waiting for transmission of the webpage data from the addons-mozilla.org website. The statusbar at the top shows information from other add-ons and Firefox.
This screenshot shows data being transferred. In this instance from the ProReviewer website. You can see that the main statusbar above has changed as it depends on what is going on in Firefox at the time.
This example shows the information for a link when the mouse is hovered over hyperlink text on the webpage. In this instance the link is for an internal admin page in the ProReviewer Wordpress area for comments.
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October 29th, 2008 at 2:59 am - Edit
skip this as I don’t use so many add-ons anyway
Acakaduts last blog post..sweating blood
October 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am - Edit
I don’t know if I really need this plugin. But I will give it a try. Would be nice to get a little more out of Firefox.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:29 pm - Edit
What I want is another statusbar so that I can give room to my icons that can not be displayed due to shortage of space in current only one statusbar. That way I could have all of my addon icons displayed on the statusbars. Is it possible.!!!!
January 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pm - Edit
That’s actually a good find. With the new laptops and monitors now in the “wide aspect ratio” format, vertical space is at a premium. I hate those toolbars ( that’s you Yahoo! ) that get bundled into other software and steal 20-30 pixels of my browser space…
March 8th, 2009 at 11:01 am - Edit
Thanks ,this plugin is very usefull
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:53 am - Edit
hmm, it doesn’t sound all that interesting, I have enough with seo for firefox and a few others…
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 am - Edit
wow, it seems a cool add-ons
but i haven’t tried it.
maybe later
July 21st, 2009 at 4:51 am - Edit
This is very useful, particularly when combined with other add-on which help with displaying the information that you need or using add-on options to limit what is displayed in the status bar. So if you need a bit more room in your status bars this certainly helps.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm - Edit
Yeahh..it’s very good add on
October 11th, 2009 at 5:06 am - Edit
I agree.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:08 pm - Edit
this blog describes statusbar is different my statusbar i am confused here
February 16th, 2010 at 12:16 am - Edit
I`ve just instaled it . It is really cool, with small improvement it can be a popular addon.
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