[Ext] Status-4-Evar 2017.03.19.12b

[Bluefang]

Basically replace anything like

var statusTextFld = document.getElementById("statusbar-display");
statusTextFld.label = "blah";

with

XULWindowBrowser.setStatusText("blah");

I'm not seeing either the "Progress meter" or "status text" items in the Customize Toolbars dialog box, but I don't blame this on your extension. I suspect some other extension is breaking the display of any non-standard items there. All I see are the built-in items, and none from any extensions.

Yeah, that definitely sounds like a bug with the profile.

Try
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Or disable your extensions one-by-one until things start working
( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox )

[makondo]

Thanks, Bluefang!
Just installed the latest hourly, Firefox/4.0b7pre ID:20100929115550 and the est. doesn't work - no url shows on hover.

[KWierso]

Thanks, Bluefang!
Just installed the latest hourly, Firefox/4.0b7pre ID:20100929115550 and the est. doesn't work - no url shows on hover.

Did you drag the status item from the Customize window to the addonbar?

[Bozz]

Thanks, Bluefang!
Just installed the latest hourly, Firefox/4.0b7pre ID:20100929115550 and the est. doesn't work - no url shows on hover.

Todays nightly works. Could be just an hourly bust.

[_Dexter_]

URL's are displayed with the latest hourly.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100929 Firefox/4.0b7pre - Build ID: 20100929130351

[LoudNoise]

From a now locked guest post in Firefox Support. viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2003273&start=0

I know that this doesn't belong here, and I sincerely apologize, but I'm not creating a new user account just to report a bug (and a workaround).

Bluefang's Status-4-Evar extension (seen here) is designed to restore functionality to the Status Bar in Firefox which, in recent 4.0 nightlies, has been replaced by the Add-on Bar. This is accomplished by using the Customize option under the Toolbars menu to add network status text and a progress bar to the Add-on Bar to emulate the appearance of the old Status Bar.

However, some users have reported that the network text and progress bar widgets are not appearing in their customization menu. Bluefang suggested that this was a profile problem, but after some testing, including running in safe mode and creating a new profile, I have traced the issue to the Mozilla Add-on Compatibility Reporter, which allows normally incompatible plug-ins to run under Firefox 4.0. I don't know exactly what's causing the problem, but I've found that installing the Reporter causes these widgets to disappear, while removing it restores them.

If someone could pass this along to Bluefang to help him work on a bugfix, it would be appreciated.

[Bluefang]

Thanks for the info. Tomorrow I'll investigate and see if I can figure out what's going on.

[malliz]

Looks like regression or bug with the latest version I went back to an older version and it works

[Robba]

Just out of curiosity....
Would it be possible to have the network status displayed in the awesomebar when the foreground tab is loading?
When its done loading, it can drop back to displaying the current URL as normal.
I could lose the bottom toolbar, and save more real estate, as my add-on toolbar currently resides at the top in the caption/title bar.

Either way, this is a fantastic creation, many thanks

[makondo]

Aha, didn't realize that after an update i have to drag 'Done' out again, unexpected. Works all right. Thanks!

[greenknight]

I'm not seeing either the "Progress meter" or "status text" items in the Customize Toolbars dialog box, but I don't blame this on your extension. I suspect some other extension is breaking the display of any non-standard items there. All I see are the built-in items, and none from any extensions.

Yeah, that definitely sounds like a bug with the profile.

Try
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Or disable your extensions one-by-one until things start working
( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox )

I was having the identical problem, traced it to the PDF Download extension.

[Bluefang]

Aha, didn't realize that after an update i have to drag 'Done' out again, unexpected. Works all right. Thanks!

Yeah, sorry about that. I changed the ID of the status text widget so that it would be more consistent now that multiple widgets are provided.

[Bozz]

Basically replace anything like

var statusTextFld = document.getElementById("statusbar-display");
statusTextFld.label = "blah";

with

XULWindowBrowser.setStatusText("blah");

This is what I find that is similar in AIO.

document.getElementById("contentAreaContextMenu");
aioMainWin = document.getElementById("main-window");
aioStatusBar = document.getElementById("statusbar-display");

I tried changing

aioStatusBar = document.getElementById("statusbar-display");

to

ioStatusBar = XULWindowBrowser.setStatusText("statusbar-display");


Reinstalled AIO but AIO would not work at all. Also tried adding <em:unpack>true</em:unpack> to the install.rdf but no luck. AIO would install but not work.

It's no big deal, but if you see something obvious, I'll try it out.

[globalplayer]

Very nice indeed. Now hovered links are where they belong, IMHO.

I absolutely second that!

I'm really tempted to open up a blog, listing all unnecessary changes and removals in 4.0.
($100,000 question: Will one page be sufficient to list them all?)
(Answer: Yes, but you will need a 6pt font )

Seriously, I'll try that thing immediately. Thanks guys.

[CGA1]

Hmm, can't get this to work at all. FF won't let me drop any of the widgets on the addon bar, I just get the Ø mouse pointer when I hover over the bar.

Edit:Btw, I'm on the 20100929 nightly.

Edit 2: Reverted back to nightly 20100928 and it worked.