If you don’t know status Bar has been removed and it has been replaced with Add-on Bar in Firefox 4, the most important use of Status bar for me is it shows preview of URL at the bottom when we hover the mouse over a link in a page, Mozilla feels Status bar is less useful and most of status bar functionality is relocated to top of the browser in Firefox 4.
Firefox Status bar functionality
1.Add-ons icons
2.Link URL Preview
3.Resize Window Control
4.Current loading tasks
5.Progress bar for page loading
6.Notification that page has finished loading
7.Link to download manager with download summary
#1 For Add-on icons Add-on Bar has been introduced, which is hidden by default much like status bar and can be enabled from Firefox button>options>
So for example I installed Firebug extension in Firefox 4 its icon will be shown on add-on bar (you need to enable Add-on bar first for both add-on bar and extension icon on it to visible).
#2 Link URL Preview has been moved to top and appears grayed after the site’s URL in address bar when you hover your mouse over the link on a page.
#3, #4 have been treated unnecessary on behalf of user.
#5, progress bar for page loading has been moved to the top and attached to the tab that is Loading page title appears on tab while page loads.
#6, Once the page has been loaded progress bar(loading) will be gone that means page was fully loaded.
#7, Currently in the latest nightly build I haven’t seen any download summary when clicked on the downloading item in download manager window. (via)
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