User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101112 Firefox/4.0b8pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101112 Firefox/4.0b8pre Older Firefox like 3.6 show transferring information in status bar like: retrieving data from www.example.com or 255.255.255.255... which is helpful in many ways.(private secure issue, website building, etc.)...or just want to know what the hell firefox is connecting to. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: restore the old way as least if you guys can't figure out a better one

There's a spinning icon in each tab.

(In reply to comment #1) > There's a spinning icon in each tab. Can you tell firefox connecting to www.google-analytics.com or download a image from photobucket.com when you browsing a forum? No! And that is exactly why I ask that function back.

Bug 603777 is the current proposed solution to this problem, but it's not blocking Firefox 4.