632022 - Move gripper out of the status bar element

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Matthew Turnbull [Bluefang]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110204 Firefox/3.6.13
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As of Bug 609127, the status bar element now has a high ordinal. This is an issue because it prevents users from arbitrarily positioning it  by placing other toolbar items around it.

This is also a problem if the user has the "Firefox 4 UI Fixer". This allows users to move the status bar to different toolbars. On platforms that actually use the gripper (XP I think?), this puts it in a very strange position.

The gripper should be moved out of the status bar, and the ordinal should be moved from the status bar to the gripper.

I brought up Bug 602971 (in the original bug) as a potential problem. If it is a problem, a potential work around (aside from fixing the actual problem) could be to wrap the addon-bar and the gripper in an hbox.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[WildcatRay]

Following this bug because of this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602971#c2

Comment 2

[IU]

Attachment: Gripper misalignment on Windows XP

Comment 3

[IU]

Attachment: Gripper misalignment on Windows 7

Comment 4

[IU]

The gripper should be forced to always be at the far right, regardless.

Comment 5

[IU]

I should add that, even before the landing of bug 609127, after installing some extensions (e.g. NoScript, Update Scanner, etc.), the gripper and the extension's status/add-on bar icon are placed to the left of all the other add-on bar icons and are immovable.  This should never happen; and since the other add-on bar icons cannot be moved, it is impossible to manually correct the positioning.

The extensions represented by the attached Windows XP screenshot are (from right to left): Adblock Plus 1.3.5a2.2773, QuickJava 1.7.2, ScrapBook+ 1.8.17.31, and Update Scanner 3.1.4rc1.

To reproduce the issue, install the first three listed add-ons, restart, and then install the last listed add-on.

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

The status bar is long gone.