Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar? Here are a some common tweaks you may want to make, and how you can get them added to your own browser.
Extended Statusbar – check out speed, percentage, time and loaded size and more
Organize Status Bar – clear the clutter out of your status bar
Cookie Button – C is for cookie, and this add-on makes it easy enough to access cookie permissions. (ok, so it doesn’t make a good song)
Calculator-Bar – adds a calculator to your status bar (big surprise there, right?)
Unshorten – see the real location of a short URL (such as tinyurl.com/something) in your browser
PopupMaster – places the popup blocker icon in the status bar, regardless of site settings
Router Status – give you the status of your router in the toolbar or status bar
ShowIP – shows your IP address and some more cool tools
Daily Dilbert – instant access to the Dilbert comic strip of the day
Dcurrency – currency exchange rates in the status bar
Live IP Address – Your current IP address in your status bar
TabCounter – gives you the number of tabs you currently have open
Viral Threat Level – adds an image to the status bar that indicates the current viral threat level of the internet
YMail Notifier – notifies you when you get new mail to your Yahoo! e-mail account
SportsFox – latest sport scores for your favorite teams
Prefswitch – quickly activate/deactivate settings like CSS, JavaScript and more
Dictionary Switcher – toggles between the installed dictionaries and displays the currently selected dictionary in the status bar
US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level – yes, that is a long name for an add-on
Status-bar Calculator – another status bar calculator (in case you need two)
Open Tab Count – counts the number of open tabs you have, just in case you forgot
Word Count Plus – counts number of words in selected text
Dictionary – comes in handy when you quickly want to find the meaning of a word
TwitterFox – notifies you of your friends’ statuses of Twitter
IsAdmin – shows whether the application is running with administrator privileges, by means of an icon in the status bar
Firesizer – allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions
Have a favorite I might have missed? Let me know via the comments and maybe we can get this list up even higher.
BONUS! – Go check out 25 More Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar!
I never liked the status bar. Is there a way to move the ‘download time remaining’ part elsewhere? With that, and Fission, I could get rid of it altogether.
Unshorten is poorly designed. It submits your links to Unshorten.com to be resolved when, at least for the services I run into regularly, a simple HTTP HEAD request on the short link will reveal the long link. (they use HTTP redirects)
I recommend installing Greasemonkey and using one of the scripts on Userscripts.org instead. (Which one will depend on how you want it to display the long URL)
25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar, They all are not frequently used.
GMail Manager (if I remember correctly this is the one which can manage multiple accounts on GMail) to go with YMail Notifier
Woot Watcher
Delicious
Digg Notifications
No Script
GreaseMonkey
IETab — Switch from IE to Firefox in a click
Download statusbar?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
Weatherbug, ForecastBar Enhanced, FoxyTunes, StatusBar Clock, Gspace
Great list here, i got a couple of them now.
But you forgot FoxyTunes!
These are very helpful, thanks!
US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level lol best addon ever
Yahoo stinks, man. Gmail’s worth it! Plus, all the status bar does is take up browsing space.
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