User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021210 Chimera/0.6+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021210 Chimera/0.6+ Replace the barberpool, which uses a lot of space, by a spinning wheel. The globe icon is confusing and does nothing, except when on a secure site. Move the Locker to the left to make it more visible and keep one shape, don't replace it by a globe icon. It would be better to use a key, like in Preferences - Security. Nothing is locked, even if it has been used by other browsers, a locker is not a very intuitive symbol. The key can be represented as (nothing=invisible, colored key, colored breaked key). See Bug 172352 This might be done via the tooltip, most users don't need such advanced information. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

NewStatusBar proposal

Hmm...

Bug 166248 addresses the space taken up by the progress bar.

Also, the status bar is useless when loading slow pages on slow connections: on 56k, I mouseover image links while images are not loaded, but I can't read the URLs in the status bar, because "transferring data", "connecting", "sending request" messages are taking the stage. I think connection messages shouldn't override URL status messages

we aren't going to use a spinner because the progress is determinant, there is definate progress that the user should see, esp on a slow connection. the other issues are worth thinking about.

The security icons should tay as it is. The lock indicates the line is locked/secure and no one besides you and the second party on the other side have the key unlock this locked/secured line. So changing the icons would be wrong IMO. 1 the security icons should indeed have a tooltip that indicates the degree of security -> "64/128 bit" 2 the popup icons and it's menu should stay the same. 3 the text region should finally have something like a line ending that puts ... at the end of a cut of line. It's not hugely important but in general it looks better. 4 the barber pole should back it's space to th text region when not active. And perhaps it would be even better if the security and popup icons would also give bak their space to the text region. One other item that could be added to the status bar is an indicator for working on- and offline.

As part of my previou post I think we should remove the globe icon that is displayed all the time. Especially since it has no clear use. The user is bombarded with the globe icon (url filed, tabs and status bar) I can be removed byremoving these two parts of code: >BrowserWindowController.mm + (NSImage*) insecureIcon { static NSImage* sInsecureIcon = nil; if ( !sInsecureIcon ) sInsecureIcon = [[NSImage imageNamed:@"globe_ico"] retain]; return sInsecureIcon; } > BrowserWindowController.h // Called to get cached versions of our security icons + (NSImage*) insecureIcon; I also think the pop-up icon should be moved so it recides besides the security icon.

Agree 100% with Jasper, the globe in the URL bar is overkill.

OK so I will try and use this bug to note some of the status bar related bugs that would be nice to get fixed together. 1) We need Bug 271621 to get checked in, it's cosmetic but an important one. 2) I really think we should remove the globe and security icon from the status bar. Displaying an indicator at 2 different places is very bad for the UI and the user. You alway need one fixed location for users to look at. 3) We need Bug 272171 to get or added so we can savely hide the status bar if the user wishes (not on default) 4) We should allow the use to hide the status bar if they wish to do so. Becuase the scurity icon now is locted inthe url bar it's pretty damn sve to do so. We can at this point also do so because the "Unblock this website" functionaily is also added to the Camino menu. Bug 159233 is the hide status bar bug but Bug 246112 contains some code that should help us on the that way.

Jasper, isn't this bug basically fixed? The status bar has been enhanced to include everything listed. The other issues are now in separate bugs (as they aren't related to enhancing the status bar at all). What's left? Am I missing something here?

This was fixed with the checkin of previous bugs. Marking as such. For any new issues, please file new bugs.