[freediver]

Status bar nowadays usually refers to the information usually showing the URL you are hovering.

Do you have any references to the old-school status bars and what they used to contain?

[Kye]

It depended on the browser, but I remember IE6 showed how long a page took to load, zone/where it came from (local, internet, "Trusted Sites," etc). All I can find when Googling are old posts on how to fix it when some plugin broke it. I think Firefox's version used to be something you could add, remove, and edit with Firefox's toolbar customizer thing.

[freediver]

Thanks for taking time to research it. It also had page zoom and other useful options. It seems as if the need for more viewing surface killed the status bar.

[CRConrad]

> Status bar nowadays usually refers to the information usually showing the URL you are hovering.

Oh yeah? Which particular Gods Of Modern Language decreed this, and who elected them to that position?