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

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.

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Tags: best-of, firefox, help, round-up, status-bar, tools

Posted on October 20, 2008 in Add-ons, Usability

Comments and Feedback

LethAL said on October 20, 2008 (permalink)

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.

Stephan Sokolow said on October 20, 2008 (permalink)

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)

Mahesh Thakkar said on October 21, 2008 (permalink)

25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar, They all are not frequently used.

Jakub Narebski said on October 21, 2008 (permalink)

GMail Manager (if I remember correctly this is the one which can manage multiple accounts on GMail) to go with YMail Notifier

Brian said on October 21, 2008 (permalink)

Woot Watcher
Delicious
Digg Notifications
No Script
GreaseMonkey
IETab — Switch from IE to Firefox in a click

iFish said on October 21, 2008 (permalink)

Download statusbar?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26

chaddo said on October 21, 2008 (permalink)

Weatherbug, ForecastBar Enhanced, FoxyTunes, StatusBar Clock, Gspace

nick said on October 22, 2008 (permalink)

Great list here, i got a couple of them now.
But you forgot FoxyTunes!

WrapUp: Walmart’s DRM-Free MP3 Store, Firefox Status Bar Tweaks, and More said on October 22, 2008 (permalink)

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