Firefox statusbar flipping left to right

Since Firefox V4's new status bar, if you use the find option or mouse over the statusbar it moves to the right corner like explained here:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/223864/firefox_4_tip_why_your_status_bar_keeps_switching_sides.html

Does anyone know how to turn this off?

 

a bug? which will not be fixed any time soon as you can imagine. No chance of running the latest FF ?

 

I'm not sure it's a bug. More like a feature.
AFAICT, there are two conditions, by design, under which the flipping will occur.
1: As long as the "find" bar is visible, the status panel will be on the right.
2: Without the find bar being visible, the flipping occurs when there's a link at/near the bottom left of the screen and hovering the mouse over that link then makes the "statusbar" flip to the right.

 

Could you explain what exactly you'd like? Maybe someone somewhere has got a workaround.

Mine is this:

Code:

statuspanel{
   position: fixed;
   top: 55px;
}

That code goes into userChrome.css. I presume you are familiar with that. The top: 55px results in the "statusbar" being near the top left of your screen. Depending on how your Firefox is set up, it maybe necessary to increase or decrease that value to get it positioned just the way you like it...

 

I'd like it to stay in place on the left and not flip to the right when I mouse-over or use the search function. I'm not familiar with userChrome.css, though it doesn't sound to difficult. However I regularly connect my notebook to an external monitor with a higher resolution, if the statuspanel/bar is fixed in place at a certain length of pixels, I presume that it won't be at the desired location when switching displays.

 

Looks like it's not possible to anchor it to the left. I just got used to it. There's an extension that allows you to place the contents of the "status bar" within the address bar. A lot of people like it. You could give it a try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
The good thing is that the dev is pretty active and is available @ http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2001965

 

Thanks, so far it's working great