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- palos99, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5525 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar
Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar? Here are a some common tweaks you may want to make, and how you can get them added to your own browser.
Extended Statusbar - check out speed, percentage, time and loaded size and more https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143 ...
Organize Status Bar - clear the clutter out of your status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/175 ...
Cookie Button - C is for cookie, and this add-on makes it easy enough to access cookie permissions. (ok, so it doesn’t make a good song) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/132 ...
Calculator-Bar - adds a calculator to your status bar (big surprise there, right?) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/434 ...
Unshorten - see the real location of a short URL (such as tinyurl.com/something) in your browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/707 ...
PopupMaster - places the popup blocker icon in the status bar, regardless of site settings https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/178 ...
Router Status - give you the status of your router in the toolbar or status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/554 ...
ShowIP - shows your IP address and some more cool tools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/590
Daily Dilbert - instant access to the Dilbert comic strip of the day https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/324 ...
Dcurrency - currency exchange rates in the status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/646 ...
Live IP Address - Your current IP address in your status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173 ...
TabCounter - gives you the number of tabs you currently have open https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/639 ...
Viral Threat Level - adds an image to the status bar that indicates the current viral threat level of the internet https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/454 ...
YMail Notifier - notifies you when you get new mail to your Yahoo! e-mail account https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125 ...
SportsFox - latest sport scores for your favorite teams https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/168 ...
Prefswitch - quickly activate/deactivate settings like CSS, JavaScript and more https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/648 ...
Dictionary Switcher - toggles between the installed dictionaries and displays the currently selected dictionary in the status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/341 ...
US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level - yes, that is a long name for an add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/150 ...
Status-bar Calculator - another status bar calculator (in case you need two) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/211 ...
Open Tab Count - counts the number of open tabs you have, just in case you forgot https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/836 ...
Word Count Plus - counts number of words in selected text https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/471 ...
Dictionary - comes in handy when you quickly want to find the meaning of a word https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/786 ...
TwitterFox - notifies you of your friends’ statuses of Twitter https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/508 ...
IsAdmin - shows whether the application is running with administrator privileges, by means of an icon in the status bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/425 ...
Firesizer - allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/579 ... - reviver, on 10/21/2008, -0/+34Are there any tweaks for loading servers that die from the digg effect?
- Jeffler, on 10/21/2008, -1/+27For some reason, I can't stand not having a status bar, believe it or not that's one of the reasons I don't use chrome.
- ElBeh, on 10/20/2008, -3/+23I just got rid of my Status bar altogether, it really is a waste of space. To see page load progress, I just have the Fission extension.
- nmalcolm, on 10/21/2008, -0/+18@elbeh
the only reason I dont get rid of the statusbar is I like to know where a link will take me (shown in statusbar on mousover). do you know an extension that shows the link address somewhere else? - inigomntoya, on 10/21/2008, -1/+16No such domain
Your request for http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/10/20/25-tweaks-f ... could not be fulfilled, because the domain name www.firefoxfacts.com could not be resolved.
This is often a temporary failure, so you might just try again.
That's an interesting "feature" - fLUx1337, on 10/21/2008, -1/+12AutoHideStatusbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/153 ...
Thats my favorite status bar tweak — it hides it! I'm a sucker for extra vertical space... - dandonia, on 10/21/2008, -0/+11For me it is the ability to scroll over a link and see what the link is too. It doesn't put me off chrome but something does and I can't figure out what.
- franl, on 10/21/2008, -1/+12Here's a trick: Hide your bookmarks bar, then customize your toolbars and drag the bookmarks toolbar up to the right of the menu bar. Insert some spaces to make it look nice, and voila ... the bookmarks toolbar is there without eating any additional vertical space.
- PhoenixTril, on 10/21/2008, -1/+11Another good reason for a "bury - server dead" option?
- Phoenixheart, on 10/21/2008, -4/+13I'm sorry, but half of them are just useless.
- Heymoe, on 10/21/2008, -0/+7The Resurrect Pages plugin at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/257 ... lets you use six archives/caches in addition to Google.
- ChevelleSS, on 10/21/2008, -0/+6"Error establishing a database connection"
- KenSPT, on 10/21/2008, -3/+9"Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar?"
Neh, I'm good ... - bigpun, on 10/21/2008, -0/+6Not a tweak as such, but there's Google cache:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:http://www.fire ... - Garofoli, on 10/21/2008, -0/+6Mirror?
- Icecream, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5Except we're not sorry.
- dtfinch, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5Drive-by maybe.
- DCstewieG, on 10/21/2008, -1/+6Wow, these comments really surprise me. I love the bookmarks toolbar, have the whole width filled with LiveBookmarks.
- inactive, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4thanks.
- spectre_25gt, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4It's ironic that you maximize your windows. That's a huge waste of screen real estate.
- LordVance, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4This is the one time I use it as well.
- Napiertt, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4nmalcolm,
Use the autohide status bar extension. When you hover over a link, the status bar will pop up with the info. - Quenlin, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4The other half don't work.
- Tychee, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4There are some OK plugins, but most of them are nothing special.
- robatjones, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4How has this got so many diggs!
- paniq, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4here is an awesome unmatched tweak for your firefox status bar: go to view, then click "statusbar". KAPOW it's gone, saving screenspace. good, eh?
- Skinnyuser, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4while the link doesn't work (Error establishing a database connection) may be we should think over a Google Chrome wish-list?
- giid, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3@franl: I do the same thing. I've been doing it so long I forgot it wasn't the default.
- Narcism, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4Well if it makes you feel better, the server is down anyways.
- robatjones, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Ah, that's how it works. Thank for that insight.
- Canuck, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4I would guess it is because people are clicking the "Digg it" button.
- drgmdp, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3the only ones i find useful (and actually use) are extended status bar and organize status bar..
- FIip, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3@nmalcolm
Link Tooltip Greasemonkey script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1904
Might need to restart FF for it to take effect. - Bogo, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Just installed it.
Oh that's nice. - pHr34kY, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2No, they're ALL useless. I turned my status bar off. You can only push 600px of vertical res so far.
- bat-21, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Greasemonkey script Digg Mirrors: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8262
- Rolamoto, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2That's not really an option for my laptop.
- darkism, on 10/21/2008, -1/+3Not sucking would be a good start.
- motox16, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2@ ethana2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/145 ...
you might like this - nmalcolm, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2I use a menubar autohide extension (Hide Menubar), and have a few bookmarks icons to the right of the address bar.
Then with icons set to small you have a lot more screen real estate. - drgmdp, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2hey that was a nice find
- drex8, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Why didn't you die with them?
- drex8, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Or people who like Firefox or Firefox extensions or related articles like that are going to check the page later on once it starts working, and saving it for a later read by digging it now. Like I did just now.
Edit: Just found there's a google cache link working, thanks to 'bigpun' above. - domness, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Never use the status bar and have most bars hidden except for the address bar.
- darkism, on 10/21/2008, -6/+8The Bookmark Bar is the real waste of space. There's a bookmarks menu for a reason; just put your most used ones right at the top.
- nmalcolm, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2@Napertt
It only shows page loading information?? for me at least, it doesn't pop up when I hover over a link (trying right now..) only when a page was loading. And I already have page loading info in the address bar using Fission.
What I think would be cool is the unshorten addon, but for normal urls too. e.g. putting the url in a tooltip. - inigomntoya, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2^Pretentious Elitist^
- MyMistake, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Nothing there...
- ethana2, on 10/21/2008, -1/+3I DESPISE wasted screen real estate. In fact..
http://i38.tinypic.com/cqmtk.png
That's how picky I am about it. -
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