Firefox 4 changed its status bar at the bottom of the Firefox and some of its features moved to other places. This post will help you to find everything and links to an add-on that recreates the old status bar.


The new Firefox 4 status bar shows the page loading activity and link previews. When neither of those is needed, it disappears. When you put the cursor on any link, the URL of that particular link popups on the left side of the bottom page. It opens up a rectangular box where it shows the preview of the URL. The status popup appears at the bottom left side of the page and displays the URL when Firefox is loading any pages. While it’s loading you can move your mouse over it and the status bar would shift to the right side. After the loading is done, the status bar automatically disappears.


In the old status bar there are many add-ons used to place an icon in the status bar to give a quick access to their features. But now they have their own toolbar called, you guessed it, the add-on bar. This add-on bar does not show by default. It would only show if installed. If you want to recover all the add-ons from your old status bar then Status-4-Evar would help you to do that. Status-4-Evar is an Add-on that recreates all of the features of the old Status Bar and lets you put them in the new Add-on Bar.