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]

Yeah, the flag doesn't affect userChrome.css or userChrome.js at all (I've tried it every which way and even reset it (cleared the value) just to make sure).

The JS and CSS in the first link in your top post didn't work, but for some reason this identical JS did (I've done a line-by-line comparison and can't find any errors in the first. I could run an actual diff but don't _think_ I have to?): https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8kxpbc/is_there_any_extension_that_can_create_a_status/dzbzw9v/ (parent: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8kxpbc/is_there_any_extension_that_can_create_a_status/) Edit: ran a diff but it just brought up spacing and comment variations that shouldn't affect the result.

It looks like the instructions there are incomplete so I got the JS at the second link to work only by accident by adding and deleting other files before I added the bottombar JS: you need that and the CSS they give you, but you also need an XML file found here: https://github.com/nuchi/firefox-quantum-userchromejs (and you might also need the userChrome.js file found there, but until I can clear Fx script cache a few more times, I won't know for sure!) edit: you don't need it, actually, just the JS, CSS and XML files mentioned are needed.

Screen cap, with a few add-on icons dragged over for demo purposes: https://intoolate.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/bottombar.png

Turns out AutoConfig and userChrome.css can control very similar things so maybe that's why people get them mixed up: https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-js.html. As far as I can tell one seems to have no dependency on the other, while AutoConfig can do things like set browser preferences that I'm thinking userChrome can't.

Re: Mozilla/Firefox did it again

[darkoshi]

I'm glad it is working for you. Now when I work on mine, I'll at least know it *should* still work for the time being, as long as I get the syntax right.

Re: Mozilla/Firefox did it again

[marahmarie]

Hopefully...*crosses fingers for you*