Nowhere to see download progress without download manager open?
I am mostly fine with the changes in firefox 4.0b7, I get that urls are now shown in the URL abr on mouse over, loading progress is in the tab and right clicking the back button shows the list of sites.
What I can't figure out is how to show the progress of files being downloaded.
The status bar had a very simple indicator...showing the number of files and time remaining.
Is there any equivalent without having to have download manager open?
Chosen solution
by cor-elThe work on removing the Status bar and relocating all items has not been finished yet.
Bug 597155 – [meta] Alternative places to show download progress (instead of dead status bar)
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You're welcome.
It is one of the things that might not get fixed for the 4.0 release and in that case we will probably see a lot of complaints about this.
Some older blogs about this change:
- http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/ad89ab1303d2dd2c
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/removing-firefoxs-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-1-of-2/
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/removing-firefox%E2%80%99s-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-2-of-2/
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/removing-firefox%E2%80%99s-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-3-of-2-wut/
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102
- QUAKE LIVE
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.4.0"
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
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Chosen Solution
The work on removing the Status bar and relocating all items has not been finished yet.
Bug 597155 – [meta] Alternative places to show download progress (instead of dead status bar)
(please do not comment in bug reports)
Question owner
OK thanks. I thought beta 7 was feature complete, i.e. only testing is being done now?
Helpful Reply
You're welcome.
It is one of the things that might not get fixed for the 4.0 release and in that case we will probably see a lot of complaints about this.
Some older blogs about this change:
- http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/ad89ab1303d2dd2c
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/removing-firefoxs-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-1-of-2/
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/removing-firefox%E2%80%99s-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-2-of-2/
- http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/removing-firefox%E2%80%99s-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-3-of-2-wut/