Status bar abandoned - yet not!

Looking at the developments of UI elements since the status bar was abandoned in Firefox 4 beta 7, by now, close to release of Firefox 4, we see the following:

1. Network status text is back in the bottom-left as an overlay, the same location as in the 3.x status bar.
2. Hovered link URLs are back in the bottom-left as an overlay as well, the same location as the 3.x status bar.
3. The window resize-gripper has found its way back to the bottom right of the browser window, either in the add-on bar or as a content overlay (which is, by the way, broken - see bug 367152)

This shows that UI elements are gravitating back towards their industry-standard locations instead of what was conceived to be "better" by a paid team of so-called "experts".
Even more so, (1) and (2) are now fixed and can't be switched-off or configured. In what way is that better?

So, was the status bar abandoned? initially, yes, then people got feedback they should have asked for before freezing the code (done in the same beta that introduced this new UI; another huge mistake), as a result elements precipitating to locations again that would be better served with permanent, not temporary, user interface elements. So in the end it was half-abandoned, and replaced with haphazard elements that look unprofessional.

You can also ask yourself what the reason has been to try and force this feature, used actively by 85% of the users (as shown in this survey), to be removed. It was already optional, so there was no pressing reason to get rid of it entirely - people who did not want it could turn it off (something that can't be done anymore at all now - the overlays are there whether you want them or not). Essential information for a number of people like the page load progress and file download status are completely missing in Firefox 4 as it stands now.

Mozilla removed a Security Feature in Firefox 4 Beta version and it leads a Phishing attack!!!

I got one email from Twitter (Actually from a hacker) as “Twitter Notification” in subject line. Thank god I didn’t follow the link. A hacker sent an email as exactly looks like Twitter notification email. While mouse hovering the links it shows fake URL in the Browser STATUS Bar. Then finally I came to a conclusion it is the Phishing email and reported as “Phishing” in Gmail itself.

I am not using Firefox 4 Beta version because they removed the most important security feature called “STATUS Bar”. In the 12th beta version they are showing the URLs as popup status and it is displaying only half of the URL. If the fake URL is very long means, you could not see it the mouse hover.

This Screenshot has taken using Firefox version 3.6.15.

“Status Bar is not only important for developers also for everyone in this world surfing the internet via web browsers”

For more than 3 months, we are commenting, voting, discussing for this feature in Firefox community forum itself. But I don’t know what happened to that guys working in the Mozilla community. One day they came and closed the thread by putting the “completed” status. See the old thread here. And again we started a new thread and it is growing every day. If you like this feature share with your friends and ask them to vote in this forum thread.

Firefox 4 Beta Status Bar removed and Making everyone as Fool!!!

Now it is the time to prove the mistake created by the Mozilla team. Still they are saying “We have removed the Status bar due to too much space occupation in the browser” But they could not fool us after seeing this screenshot.

In the Firefox 4 beta 12 release they removed the hover URL status from the address bar. Now both page loading status and hover URL status is displaying above the add-on bar and it occupies doubled space in the bottom of the browser.

Please vote for this awesome security feature in this thread. Make this feature request as popular one.