Lost status bar moving profile to Windows 7
I have been running under XP Home SP3. I just built a new computer which is now running Windows 7 Premium 64-bit. I have Firefox V3.6.3 on both machines. I copied my profile from the XP system to the 7 system. As far as I can tell, this worked as expected, as I now have a large number of plugins installed and configured as they were on XP. There is one important exception: I can no longer get my status bar to appear, and I (am supposed to) have a number of useful widgets on it. (Yes, on the View menu, I unchecked Status Bar, restarted Firefox, and then rechecked it. No joy!)
Any ideas on how to retrieve it? (There was another "solved" thread on losing the status bar; but the causes considered there were rather simple. I think the problem I have encountered is more profound.)
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== I replaced the default profile after installation on Windows 7 with the one from my XP system.
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It is possible that the screen is too high and that the status bar and scroll bar fall off at the bottom.
Open the system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can resize that window. If that works then close Firefox to save that setting.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resizing_oversize_window --- Window sizes and positions are stored in localstore.rdf in the Profile Folder.
I have the same problem with Win7/64Pro (new installation, no upgrade from an older system). The FireFox status bar is there but it does not show any buttons of installed add.ons (e.g. NoScript, QuickJava). To me, clearly a bad FireFox bug !
I started this thread. I should have followed up myself because the problem corrected itself after I rebooted. It never occurred to me that rebooting could bear on the issue because you can install Firefox from scratch and it runs correctly without rebooting. So there is probably an oversight-type bug here, but it is not very serious.
@Dr. Dubas: I suspect that our problems are different, as your screen shot does show a status bar - albeit a blank one. Not sure about QuickJava, but there is an explicit enabling option for appearance of the NoScript icon on the status bar. I don't know the default for that option, but you might want to check to make sure that it is checked. It's on the Appearance tab.
For most addons with associated icons, I use the sidebar rather than the status bar. To configure that, you have to customize it by dragging the icons you want there onto it. That is where my NoScript button lies.
Unfortunately, all the buttons and messages are enabled within the add-on setups but none of them appears anyway in the status bar … I also tried to disable the buttons, restart Firefox and enable again – this doesn't work either,