Firefox: view status bar in full screen

Whenever I am browsing in the full screen mode in Firefox, I miss the status bar. I use status bar extensively, to know page loading status, to know the actual URLs of the links. Whenever I hovered over a link, the URL will be shown on the status bar. But, in full screen mode, the status bar is not available. I have to right click on the link and select properties to view the actual URL.
By changing the userChrome.css file, I now get status bar in full screen mode also.

First read "What is userChrome.css & userContent.css?", if you don't know about them.

It is very simple. Add the following lines into your userChrome.css file.

/* Making status bar visible in full screen */
#status-bar
{
visibility: visible;
}

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What are userChrome.css & userConent.css?

userChrome.css is used to change the interface of the Firefox itself, userContent.css used to change the appearance of the web pages.

These files are not exist by default. But, there will be userChrome-example.css, userContent-example.css in the chrome folder of your default profile folder. Remove "-example" from the file name, create chrome folder in your profile, copy those two files there.

Now, you can do many customizations of your firefox. You can change appearance of your Firefox. Stay tuned for more posts on this.

Related:

What is a Firefox Profile?

View website source with external JS, CSS files

You can view the source code of the web page in every browser. But, most of the sites will use external CSS files for design, and external JS files for functionality. But, browsers will show the final page. If you want to look at those external files, you have to externally open each external file to view that.

Using JS View Firefox extension, you can do it the easy way. This extension will show all the files linked in the current page. Then you can open the required file by just clicking on that file name. Very useful extension if you are learning web designing.

Download Youtube videos

You can download videos from Youtube, metacafe, Myspace, Google Video, etc using the Download Helper Firefox Extension. Once a page opened, this extension will show the available media files to be downloaded. You can select the file you need to download.

If you don't have Firefox already, get Firefox here. You can download VLC Player to view the FLV (flash video) files.

Open IE in Firefox

Even how much you love Firefox, Occasionally you need to use IE for some purposes like to visit Windows Update site. Telugu language rendering in Firefox is also not good. For these types of things you need to use IE. Using the following icon you can open that telugu site in IE in a tab of the current Firefox window. So that you are really opening IE, but you are managing all in a single window on the taskbar.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/35

With this add-on, you can right click on a link and select 'open Link in IE Tab'. Actually you can configure some sites to be automatically opened with IE. You don't need to do anything, when you open one of these sites, rendering engine will automatically change to IE.


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Gmail as virtual hard drive

Turn your gmail account into a free online drive to backup your files, with Gspace firefox add on. It works by storing your files as emails. Even though you can do this yourself, Gspace provides ftp like interface.

As Gspace stores files as email attachments, they are limited to maximum size restriction of Gmail which currently is 20MB. As using this extension might be in violation with Gmail's TOS, you may create a dummy account for this purpose. So, go ahead and try it today.