Closed Bug 425584 Opened 16 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Turn the status bar off by default on OS X

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: faaborg, Unassigned)

References

Details

To visually integrate with OS X, I think we should consider turning the status bar off by default.  Users coming to Firefox on other platforms who miss the status bar will still be able to turn it on, and users who are at home on OS X are less likely to miss the status bar, since it is not native to their platform.  What do people think?
Turning off the status bar makes the resize widget hide the scrollbar down arrow, bug 56488.
What about the URL and lock icon shown for secure websites? Would it be shown somewhere else if the status bar is off by default?
I'm not sure about this to be honest. 

In Safari, the progress meter is displayed in the location bar, something that we have decided that we are not going to do (yet at any rate) in Firefox. The padlock is displayed in the top right hand corner in Safari too.
Should this depend on bug 459799 and/or bug 476589?
>Should this depend on bug 459799 and/or bug 476589?

yeah, I think so
Depends on: 459799, 476589
Component: Theme → General
QA Contact: theme → general
I guess this happened, on all platforms.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Verified fixed on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110410 Firefox/4.2a1pre
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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