zeniko's Fission

Fission combines address bar and progress bar - Safari style, as did Fusion:

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Fission 1.0.9 [released 2009-05-08]

• Fixed two issues with the smoother progress bar

This release works for Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6 as well as Flock 2.5 (unsupported).

Contact / Feedback

Please post to the official forum thread for feedback, questions and bug reports.

Before reporting any bugs, please read about debugging Firefox extensions first. And for bugs with the default theme, please go through these steps as well. Thanks.

Note: Some themes might break when you install Fission. If that happens for you, please rather contact your theme's author and ask him/her to adapt the theme for Fission (have a look at this post for what modifications might be needed). I only use the default theme and won't be able to help you.

Styling

Fission can be minimally styled through its Options dialog and more extensively through userChrome.css:

/* Different background color and some margin (Fusion-style only) */
#urlbar[fission="fusion"] > #statusbar-icon > .progress-bar {
   background-color: #D2BDB6 !important;
   margin: 2px !important;
}

/* Different text color while the progress bar is shown */
#urlbar[fission="fusion"][progress]:not([progress="0"]):not([progress="100"]) {
   color: #000000 !important;
}

/* Different text color for linkified URLs */
#urlbar[fission-link] .textbox-input-box { color: blue !important; }

See userstyles.org for more complex Fission specific styles.

Related code snippets

To get an even better experience when hiding the status bar, you could additionally try adding the following code snippets to your userChrome.js:

• The Auto-Hide Statusbar snippet will temporarily show the status bar when an extension or a web page displays status information (e.g. Mouse Gestures)
• The Link Tooltip snippet will display the links' target in a tooltip (instead of or additionally to the status bar / address bar)

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Revisions

Current: Version 1.0.9

Fixed two issues with the smoother progress bar

Version 1.0.8

The progress bar advances more smoothly

Version 1.0.6

Added Ukrainian, Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Hebrew locales (thanks to the translators over at BabelZilla)

Minor fix for Firefox 3.5's default Mac theme

Version 1.0.5

Minor UI polish: Progress bar is always updated when changing tabs, connection status only displayed in one place.

Version 1.0.3

Fission sometimes failed to work (regression in version 1.0.2)

Version 1.0.2

Dropped support for Firefox 2.0 (use Fission 1.0 instead)

Version 1.0.1

Minor update for the latest Firefox 3.1 nightlies

Added a Romanian locale

Version 1.0

Two theme tweaks for Firefox 3.0