Anyone else having problem with webpage jumping when hovering over links with long URLs in Firefox 4 Beta 12?
When I hover over a link with a URL that is longer than what fits within the length of the status bar in Firefox 4 Beta 12, the whole page jumps back and forth until I stop hovering over the link. It was so annoying (particularly on Google search results pages with a lot of links, etc.) I actually uninstalled Firefox 4 Beta 12 and went back to the Beta 11 release.
Is there anything in about:config that would disable the status bar that the link URLs preview in, at the least?
Modified by onlysomeguy
Chosen solution
Download the Status Bar 4 evar extension. It fixes this problem and also gives many other options for the addon bar. Here's the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
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Download the Status Bar 4 evar extension. It fixes this problem and also gives many other options for the addon bar. Here's the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
I had a similar issue. I did not like that pop-up style status bar that flickered on and off as I hovered over links or loaded pages. I literally got nauseous, like motion sickness, from having it flickering so much. The extension mentioned by Efreak did help when I tried that, but it's nuts that you need an extension just to have such a basic function on a browser as a status bar. The goofy thing to me is that the few pixels saved at the bottom of the screen for the sake of a status bar were wasted at the top of my screen with icons I couldn't get rid of on my bookmarks bar without converting all my navigation buttons to text only. I don't know what FF was thinking with this, but the entire look, feel and function of FF 4 beta 12 was bad enough that I reinstalled the last FF3 stable release instead. I'd love to keep helping as a beta tester, but I need to actually USE my browser. I haven't had the other beta versions, so don't know where that version stood in the general progression of things, but that is a long way off from being a useable browser. About the only thing it seemed to have going for it is it felt a tiny bit faster at loading pages, but who cares about speed if the function isn't there? If I wanted a fast browser with no useful functionality, I'd be a Chrome user.
Thanks, Efreak. That did, in fact, work around the problem by putting the URLs in the add-on bar, vs. throwing that new status bar immediately above the add-on bar. Long URLs do not cause the page to jump back and forth anymore.
Works perfectly!!! I love this browser, but that issue with the status bar made me go back to chrome until I found a fix.
@onlysomeguy Could you please mark this post as solved? Thanks:P
This is a workaround, not a fix, as hjb said.
I see that they haven't fixed the problem in the Firefox 4 RC that was just released recently.
@Chelmite: You're right. Efreak posted a nice work around to the problem that does solve the problem in a different way. But, the FF developers need to implement a fix to make their browser work without requiring us to install an add-on that may or may not be compatible down the road.
Modified by onlysomeguy
It looks like the problem has been fixed in the latest RC version of Firefox 4.