648373 - Status bar hides webpage content

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 637017

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Axel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Is it just me who's disturbed by the fact that the new status bar protrudes into the bottom area of a web page?

Particularly web page specific status messages, like e.g. Hotmail's "Loading..." message are hidden by FF's status bar.

Elements positioned as "position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0;" are mainly endangered to escape the user's notice.

=> security risk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into a Hotmail account using a low-speed Internet connection
2. Click the Inbox hyperlink
Actual Results:  
The Hotmail "Loading..." status message is hidden by FF's "javascript:;" status message.

Expected Results:  
The status bar should be outside of the web page content. Preferrably below.