Taming Firefox status bar
- Published:
In Firefox 4, statusbar has started to show at the right instead of at the left of browser window if search bar is opened. (Statusbar is used, for example, to display URL address of a currently hovered link.)
As a result, statusbar is shown now at the left, now at the right, and fundamental usability rule has become violated: specific element of interface should always be placed on one and the same place.
Those annoyed by this Firefox bug can manually add following CSS rules to chrome/userChrome.css file in Firefox profile directory or with Stylish extension to fix the issue:
#statusbar-display {
left: 0 !important;
right: auto !important;
pointer-events: none !important;
}
#statusbar-display .statuspanel-label {
border-left-style: none !important;
border-right-style: solid !important;
border-top-left-radius: 0 !important;
border-top-right-radius: .3em !important;
margin-left: 0 !important;
margin-right: 1em !important;
}
Updated, : added pointer-events property to prevent nonclickability of a link located directly under status bar.