Do you remember the old days of Firefox when the statusbar used to an actual bar with stuff on it? Well, now you can have that.

At first I tried using the actual status bar - the one whose availability you can enable in settings and then choose whether it will show links or not. With some CSS for customizing the status bar, that would eventually leave you with a bar with two thick white lines that look like border and that won’t go away no matter what you do. Again - that’s a linux only problem! These lines are not present in the Windows version of Waterfox.

So, I took some time to play with that, I even asked an AI for help but no good - the desired status bar wouldn’t appear as I wanted it. So I took another approach: I brought up the bookmarks bar. Since I’m not using it anyway, I decided to turn it into a status bar:

1. Bring up the bookmarks bar.
2. Go to settings and choose position for it - bottom.
3. Remove any bookmarks from it, if there are any.
4. Right click on it --> Customize toolbar --> Remove any elements from the bookmarks bar. Also remove the message “add bookmarks here”. If you want, you can add the Zoom function (-|100%|+) and it automatically go to the right most part of the bookmarks bar, making it look even closer to the classic status bar. You can add other things to it, if you want - just not bookmarks, otherwise it will become a mess.
5. Open your profile dir which is usually located in ~/.waterfox/Profiles/randomname.default-release-1. Note that I can’t tell you where EXACTLY this last directory is because I changed the location of mine long ago - so long ago that I don’t even remember what its original location and name were. Anyway, once you find, enter the directory chrome (if you don’t have it - create it) and then open/create a new file named userChrome.css. This file is responsible for the appearance of the browser. So, open/create it and paste this in it:

`#statuspanel { position: fixed !important; left: 0 !important; bottom: 0 !important; z-index: 9999 !important; }

#statuspanel-label { margin-left: 10 !important; border: none !important; padding: 10 !important; font-family: “Open Sans” !important; font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: bold !important; color: #E2B582 !important; }`

and your new status bar (after you restart the browser) will look like on the screenshot above. Ofcourse, you can change the font color, size or family to any values you want. These are my colors and font size and also just for the example on how to make this work.

The Waterfox version I did this with is G6 - 6.5.11.