Eliminate your status bar with autoHideStatusBar
Written by Angelo on Sunday, September 7th, 2008This is a post from Extendably’s new regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions.
For a lot of us, the status bar is fairly useless. The only real purpose it serves out of the box is to tell you the progress of a loading website. For those of us with low screen resolutions (mine is maxed at 1024×768) the status bar is annoying. It just sits there, taking up about 20 pixels of valuable screen real-estate.
Well now you can reclaim your precious screen real-estate, by eliminating your status bar, but still preserving the functionality.
AutoHideStatusBar is an add-on still in the experimental stages of development, but is useful nonetheless. It does exactly what the name implies - eliminate your status bar and freeing up those precious pixels so you can see more of the website instead of more of your browser.
However if you do feel the need to check if a website is loading, autoHideStatusBar has an option that can be enabled which lets the status bar pop up after a specified number of seconds. If you bring your mouse down to the bottom edge of your browser window and hover (5px border with a 500ms hover-time by default) the status bar slides into view, exactly like autohiding the taskbar in Windows.
Note: Becuase this addon is still experimental you first have to activate an account on the addon’s website. To create a new account, just click on the autoHideStatusBar link above, and then click on signup which is located under the “Add To Firefox” button. If you don’t want to create a new account, you can alternatively download this directly from the author’s website: http://caspar.regis.free.fr/ahs/
Tags: autoHideStatusBar, Extensions
Posted in Browsers, Firefox
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