Stefan wrote:andman42 wrote:I actually tried this and don't think it will work out.
I know you are wrong in your assumption and the reason I know that is becuse there are plenty of other windows apps that use exactly this method to show download progress.
Right, but none of the apps you speak of use the native Windows XP progress bar (with incrementing green blocks) like Firefox does. These other apps coded their own progress bars that are solid in color and have text whose color changes to contrast the background.
Firefox for Windows uses the native Windows progress bar, and layering text on top of the native progress bar does not look good. There are two ways around it that I can see.
1. If there is a way to skin the progress bar (I don't know of any, but there could be), one could skin the progress bar an acceptable color. Then they would still have to make the status text dynamically change color as the progress changes. Plus, skinning the progress bar may conflict or cause problems with Firefox themes. This sounds like a hassle.
2. Someone could write an entirely new progress bar implementation.
I'm not interested in doing either of those as I don't think they're worth the time. If someone else is, great. But, until someone does one of the two things above, stacking text on top of the progress bar won't look good.