658204 - On mouse over, url display overlays data (revert to the old status bar)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 602237

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[George R. Goffe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Firefox used to have a line at the bottom that would show a url that the mouse was over. This like seems to have disappeared in recent versions of FF and was replaced by a "balloon help type" popup which overlays data on the url being viewed, hiding the data underneath.

I would like to suggest reverting this feature.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjXFfgoarPQ&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXfw0ZTMOkbKBy_RdCRHLU0l
2.observe the playlist at the bottom
3.move the mouse over links in the page, observe the popup overlaying data.

Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

The bring-the-status-bar-back issue has already been handled in bug 602237, but it seems that will not happen.

You may try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/