Because statusbars bloat code and give users too many options, right?
userChrome.css (custom UI styles) won't work out of the box, so you have to toggle:
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
to true
Brings back the behavior of the original status bar that didn't pop out and make itself known with every click or hover.
Inside the .mozilla folder I have copies of my CSS, structured similarly to how it would be on most systems (user directory/.mozilla/blabla..)
@import
the CSS, that way if I want to add/remove customizations, I don't have to dig through a huge CSS file looking for chunks to snipThe following are all that is required to bring the status bar back:
For more thorough instructions on using CSS to fix Firefox and customization options, see the CustomCSSforFx repo