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grey bar at bottom of screen disappeared for all websites, how do i get it back

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all of a sudden the grey bar at bottom disappeared. it no longer tells me if a page is loading, connecting, etc

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== the other day out of the blue

all of a sudden the grey bar at bottom disappeared. it no longer tells me if a page is loading, connecting, etc == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == the other day out of the blue

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AnonymousUser
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View > Status bar

AnonymousUser
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Nope, I had made sure it was checked.

cor-el
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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.

Delete localstore.rdf or rename to localstore.rdf.sav in the Profile Folder to test if the file is corrupted. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf (caution: do not delete the localstore.rdf file in the Firefox program installation folder)

Note: Deleting the file localstore.rdf will reset the customizations of the toolbars to the defaults. You can rename localstore.rdf to localstore.rdf.sav to test if that solves it. Then you can restore the customization by copying localstore.rdf.sav to localstore.rdf if it didn't work.