Elwood P Dowd's Journal: My dream firefox extension

I would like to not need my status bar.

I would like the URL to preview in the URL bar. Like in OmniWeb.

I would like the download status for the current page to fill the URL bar, like in Safari.

Then I would get rid of my status bar, and I would finally be happy.

If anyone knows of any such extensions for Firefox, please tell me.

Edit: A mockup, for your enjoyment: http://www.littleblur.com/dotmac/slash/url-status-omniweb-ripoff-mockup.gif

Not quite

[gmhowell]

One of the tab extensions puts the status in the tab. I know I've seen a preview in the sidebar somewhere.

Confusion

[OldMiner]

I would like the URL to preview in the URL bar. Like in OmniWeb.

I don't know what you mean by this. Can you provide a screenshot? If you have nowhere to upload it, I can provide an email address or anonymous FTP.

Re:Confusion

[Elwood P Dowd]

I'll mock one up. Don't have omniweb handy.

Re:Confusion

[Elwood P Dowd]

I love GIMP for anigifs.

http://www.littleblur.com/dotmac/slash/url-status- omniweb-ripoff-mockup.gif [littleblur.com]

Notice how the URL bar changes at the same time as the status bar?

You could then hide the status bar, and you'd only lose the information about page download progress. Making the favicon change would probably be rather tricky. I just did that because it was easier to mock up that way, and would, theoretically, be prettier and better. But it's not the point of the feature.

Safari shows you the page download pro