Firefox status bar

[darkoshi]

My main Firefox browser that I use at work, which is on an ESR update channel, was finally updated from a pre-Quantum version to version 60.

I found that there is actually a way to get back a status bar, for displaying URLs when hovering over links, rather than having the URLs pop up and disappear:

http://www.optimiced.com/en/2018/02/11/restore-status-bar-in-firefox-quantum/


It sounds like there's even a way to put add-on buttons on the status bar too. But I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not sure:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/8bfxji/been_trying_to_revive_the_addon_bar_statuspanel/

Hmmm. I'll need to see if there's a way of changing the status bar color. I don't like it being gray.

Comments

Re: Mozilla/Firefox did it again

[marahmarie]

I looked up AutoConfig last night (very briefly). Off the top of my head it doesn't seem to have anything (or else much) to do with userChrome. js but I'm not 100% sure on that either, just yet.

Re: liking Waterfox, I might too if I'd never moved on to using Quantum (which I started doing pretty much as soon as it came out, if not sooner (I can't recall now if I grabbed any Betas or Nightlys before it did)).

I didn't realize Waterfox was slow except by comparison. Quantum's so fast it makes Waterfox look like a turtle. Maybe on better hardware, though, its slowdowns/bottlenecks/general lagginess might not be as noticeable.

Re: security on Waterfox, that's why I keep it strictly for DW coding (mostly while logged out) - I figure me and the browser just can't get into too much trouble right here. :)