636998 - Hovering link display suboptimal after change of status-bar into add-on bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 629304

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

After the display of links on hovering was moved back to the bottom of the screen, the change of the statusbar into an "add-on" bar causes the display to waste large amounts of screen estate: the hovering links create a sort of mini-status-bar above the add-on bar (which is really the status bar) instead of being displayed into it.

So instead of a single, small status bar, containing links and add-ons, we now have 2 semi-statusbars.

Concretely, when the add-on bar is enabled, it should act as a statusbar.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable add-on bar
2.Hold mouse over a link
3.
Actual Results:  
Link destination shown in a seperate bar above the add-on bar.

Expected Results:  
Link destination show in add-on bar.

Comment 1

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Attachment: Screenshot of effect

Screenshot attached. Note the huge, unused whitespace.

Comment 2

[[not reading bugmail]]

this is not a bug, but wontfix since its a dupe of bug 629304.