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25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar

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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

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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

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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)

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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!

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  • my p
    Yahoo stinks, man. Gmail's worth it! Plus, all the status bar does is take up browsing space.
  • US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level lol best addon ever
  • These are very helpful, thanks!
  • nick
    Great list here, i got a couple of them now.
    But you forgot FoxyTunes!
  • chaddo
    Weatherbug, ForecastBar Enhanced, FoxyTunes, StatusBar Clock, Gspace
  • iFish
  • Woot Watcher
    Delicious
    Digg Notifications
    No Script
    GreaseMonkey
    IETab -- Switch from IE to Firefox in a click
  • Jakub Narebski
    GMail Manager (if I remember correctly this is the one which can manage multiple accounts on GMail) to go with YMail Notifier
  • Mahesh Thakkar
    25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar, They all are not frequently used.
  • 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)
  • LethAL
    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.
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