Geek-in-Training
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10 years ago Well, not terribly obvious. A little background: Any Firefox version less than 4.0 had what was called the status-bar. It displayed, well, status things, such as a progress bar, and it used to show you where a link you were hovering over would go to if you clicked on it. So back then, when you made an addon, you could add stuff into the status-bar for easy access. So you would write fancy computer code that basically says: [add "myStatusThing" to "status-bar"].
Enter Firefox 4.0
Now there was no more status bar, and they added the addon bar in its place. But, so that old addons would still be compatible, they added a sub-bar, or a section of the addon bar, and named it "status-bar" so that these old addons would still work. This "sub-bar" and its contents could not be moved anywhere, they just sat on the addon bar's far right.
Enter Firefox 29
No more addon bar, or it's status-bar "sub-bar". Any addon that tries to put anything in the addon bar now moves into the navigation bar, unless it is too big. The status-bar still exists, but it is hidden, and so anything inside of it is also hidden.
Enter The Addon Bar (Restored)
So now with this addon I can move the old status-bar into my new addon bar, and I can make the whole bar movable. But not each item inside of it.
Hope that makes sense, it is a little hard to explain clearly without explaining how the code itself works.
I am using the typegauge plugin, which installs an icon in the status bar, which is gone now. Installed your addon and was able to finally see the typegauge icon. I tried moving the icon to the current add-on bar, but it still seems like it's inside of your new bar. If I disable your bar, the icon goes away.
Is there a way to move an icon out of your bar into the built-in bar? Or am I missing something obvious?