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Does the status bar pop up have to change the window background on every appearence?

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ion80
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I am using Firefox 4.0 on Windows 7 with transparency of windows turned off. In this case the window frames (really thick, unfortunately) are fully opaque and display a background image that has an edge from white to blue 30 per cent down from the top. (If you like, I can provide screenshots.)

Now, when I hover a link, the pop up with the adress is displayed and from Windows's point of view this seems to alter the height of the complete window. Therefore it rescales the background image of the window frame and that mentioned edge moves, which is quite distracting. I don't want the old status bar back - but when I hide the pop up with the add-on "Status-4-Evar" this problem does not occur.

I guess this happens on every machine. At least on mine it wasn't fixed with all add-ons deactivated in safe mode.

I am using Firefox 4.0 on Windows 7 with transparency of windows turned off. In this case the window frames (really thick, unfortunately) are fully opaque and display a background image that has an edge from white to blue 30 per cent down from the top. (If you like, I can provide screenshots.) Now, when I hover a link, the pop up with the adress is displayed and from Windows's point of view this seems to alter the height of the complete window. Therefore it rescales the background image of the window frame and that mentioned edge moves, which is quite distracting. I don't want the old status bar back - but when I hide the pop up with the add-on "Status-4-Evar" this problem does not occur. I guess this happens on every machine. At least on mine it wasn't fixed with all add-ons deactivated in safe mode.

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That will be this bug - Aero glass glaze effect jumps down when status info overlay appears - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633282

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TonyE
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That will be this bug - Aero glass glaze effect jumps down when status info overlay appears - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633282

ion80
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Thanks, I hope it gets fixed soon.

Attached there's a screenshot that I've made just before your answer.