add-ons ate the URI in my status bar!

"Gregory J. Rosmaita" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
aloha!

how does one set a plug-in to NOT take up space in the status 
bar, so that one can review the status line for the URI of the
link/item with focus?

i'm willing to give up some space to foxclocks, because foxclocks
rocks -- both in and of itself as an add-on, and in its exemplary 
choice of display options -- but i don't need the iconic clutter 
that keeps me from being able to query the status line for the URI 
of the link/item with focus

no matter how many objects clutter my status line, i should still 
be able to have my screen reader read the full URI when the status 
line is queried, even if -- visually -- the URI is truncated or is 
forced off the status line by add-on/plug-in status bar hogs

there should be a way for the user to be able to preserve the
status line for URI exposition and a default add-on/plug-in 
requirement that shortcuts or icons will not be added to the 
status line except upon receipt of explicit user input

the multiple toolbar model is what i'm after for the status 
line in firefox - i can turn on toolbars or turn them off, and
they don't interfere with the location field (the addressbar, 
i think is its technical name); the same should be true for 
any add-on or plug-in distributed via any mozilla fora -- a 
user should be able to control whether or not to add items to 
the status line...  either that, or i need someone to hack me
a plugin that moves statusbar icons to a XUL toolbar or (better
yet) a menu item...

speaking of multiple toolbars, there should be a native (that 
is, firefox UI provided) means of accessing multiple toolbars 
from the keyboard -- or, at least, the ability for a user to set 
or invoke one?

gregory.
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