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echo: win95
to: August Abolins
from: Alan Zisman
date: 2011-04-26 13:08:50
subject: Firefox 4 released today

On 26-04-11 9:14 AM, August Abolins -> Alan Zisman wrote:
 AA> Alan Zisman -> August Abolins said..

 AF>>>> Re: Firefox 4 released today
 >>>>> Worth checking out by all current Firefox fans.

 AF>>>> It's not bad. I'm not overly keen by some of the changes
 AZ>> to AF>> the interface. Such as removing the status bar...

 AZ>> There's a View/Add-on Bar option which, when clicked adds a
 AZ>> bar along the bottom - but it doesn't seem to be the former
 AZ>> Status Bar... when I hover my mouse over a link, for instance,
 AZ>> the link target - which formerly appeared in the Status Bar,
 AZ>> pops up in the lower-left corner of the main window... whether
 AZ>> the Add-on Bar is visible or not.

 AA> I'm too accustomed to having a status bar. It can reveal "what's going
 AA> on" with loading a site, identifying phishing links, etc..

I've also always been a status-bar fan... but I note in FF4 that status
messages appear in the lower-left, as needed.

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