990483 - Firefox 29 lacks addon status bar and a lot of addons like Domain Details (IP, server headers) uses only addon bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 890008

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Nix\]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140327113732

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 29 lacks addon status bar and a lot of addons like Domain Details (IP, server headers) uses only addon bar.

No other addon have: IP, Country Flag, Server Headers in the same icon.

So, is not 100% true that all icons was moved to navigation bar.

I suggest that the addon bar are optional, like a addon or in preferences, enable or disable, but not remove it.


Actual results:

A lot of addons does not work because addon bar was removed, in 28 is optional


Expected results:

Recover addons, Domain Details and others.

Comment 1

[Nix\]

Some progress with this bug?

Comment 2

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

This is very unlikely to be addressed. There are add-ons already bring back the add-on bar and the status-bar: The Puzzle Piece (use latest 1.3.x still to be reviewed) or Classic Theme Restorer are good bets.

Comment 3

[Nix\]

(In reply to Luís Miguel [:Quicksaver] from comment #2)
> This is very unlikely to be addressed. There are add-ons already bring back
> the add-on bar and the status-bar: The Puzzle Piece (use latest 1.3.x still
> to be reviewed) or Classic Theme Restorer are good bets.

All addons for it, adds more memory and cpu usage to Firefox.

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

There is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-add-on-bar/ which just adds the add-on bar back. 

(In reply to Nix\ from comment #3)
> All addons for it, adds more memory and cpu usage to Firefox.

The overhead for an extension like this is small compared to Firefox as a whole. The Domain Details extensions could also create the add-on bar if it doesn't already exist.

We don't have any plans to add the add-on bar back. Install one of the many extensions if you are a user who requires it. You should contact the Domain Details extension author if the extension doesn't work in other toolbars.