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Firefox 4 : Missing status bar!

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After the Firefox 4 update to beta 7, you may notice that the status bar by default has been discarded.

The concept of status bar has been moved to the address bar. Hence, once you hover your mouse over any links the preview of the links will appear in the address bar by default.

However, you can still view the icons used by the addons, which was previously seen on the status bar, by enabling Add-On Bar. Go to View->Toolbars-> and check Addon bar to see the same.

UPDATE!!
As of March 22 2011, the official release of Firefox 4, the status will appear Just above the Addon bar

Trying out Firefox 4 Beta 4.

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For a good long time have been a Firefox beta tester. So far, was pretty much settled with Firefox 3.6.x, but now have started to test Firefox 4. So far, the first impression I had was .. “its lighter”. But wait, more on that later.

There is an instant feedback add-on installed with FF4, as simple as “Firefox makes me happy/sad” links.

The rendering engine is better sure. But the big down part of trying new Firefox beat/releases is the lack of support for existing extensions. For me personally, I tend to use extensions with Firefox than say Firefox with extensions! In earlier times, I would just unpack, the xpi files and change the supported Firefox versions. But not right now.

Also, continuing on the observation that this new installation is lighter/faster, I think it goes only as far as installing or enabling all the extensions I use. Yes, no doubt that Firefox is a big memory hogger at times, atleast on the windows platform. My home Firefox(3.6.10Pre on Ubuntu) is much faster I believe.

Will post more updates later.