Status bar and RSS in Firefox 4

Firefox 4, while a huge improvement over 3.6 in many ways, does have two major pet peeves for me: the dumping of the status bar at the bottom of the page into the location bar and the elimination of the RSS icon in the location bar. What's more annoying is that neither of these changes come with options to reverse them within Firefox 4 itself. Fortunately, there are extensions that allow the full restoration of these faculties: Status-4-Evar and RSS Icon. The latter restores the old system right out of the box while the former requires a little about:config tweaking.

By default, Status-4-Evar puts the status bar functionality in the new optional Add-On Bar at the bottom of the screen. The problem is that it still displays the same information in the location bar as well, which can be distracting. It also leaves the Add-On Bar's annoyingly unremoveble close button (an X) in place. That can be fixed by going into about:config, changing status4evar.addonbar.closeButton to false, status4evar.linkOver to 1, and status4evar.urlbarProgress to false. Do that and it'll look and act just like Firefox 3.