This isn't your grandfather's status bar.

  • It dissapears when it's not needed - taking less space on your screen.
  • It shows the file type - before you open some big old app by accident.
  • It shows the file size - did you really want to download that 2gb file?
  • It shows the REAL destination - before you get rickrolled. Again.
  • And it's PRETTY. - Like, Unicorns and Rainbows Pretty.  Check the Themes.

Oh and there's MORE.

  • Shows the link destination's favicon so you can easily tell when a link will take you off of the current site.
  • Lengthens shortened URLs, from 80 different URL shorteners (thanks LongURLPlease!) (latest beta now expand links from over 250 different URL shortening services thanks to LongURL.org)
  • We're adding new Themes on a regular basis. You can even make one for us if you like.
  • Shows informative icons for non-web page URLs (pdf, zip, doc, etc...)
  • Also shows icons for alternate protocols (eg mailto:, skype:, magnet: etc...).
  • And now with 80% more unicorns!

Oh, and we're actively maintaining this thing. It works. Everywhere. Frames, iframes, no problem.

Find any bugs, let us know - we'll fix em up in a jiffy.

 

What's new in the latest version (1.1.0.1)?

  • New theme "Snow" (by Dan Deming-Henes)
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  • New theme "Charcoal" (by Dan Deming-Henes)
    • /data/_uploaded/image/screenshot-theme-charcoal.png
  • #71: Multiple language support (including translations for Português, Deutsch and Español)
  • #68: More shortened URL services get expanded (over 250 supported now!)
  • #73: Option to disable USB on a per domain basis
  • #67: New "floated" status bar prevents USB from covering links at the bottom of a page
  • Refactoring content initialization code
  • Prevent USB from being initialized on about:blank pages
  • Style overrides to prevent css bleeding
  • Optimization of build frame code
  • Added copyright file
  • Tweak link destination text

 

Previous version (1.0)

  • New theme "Smooth" (by Adam Fisher-Cox)
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  • New widget architecture allows for multiple simultaneous lookups and lookups through url shorteners
  • Add descriptive text for link targets and support modifier keys for same
  • Highlight differences in paths
  • fixed #45: USB breaks if attempted to load before DOMReady
  • fixed #49: fadeIn waits for fadeOut to complete
  • Implemented #53: Option to disable site icon lookups
  • css fix: incorrect icon for zip files
  • Better favIcon caching
  • recreate the statusbar frame if a script destroys it
  • remove unused content.css file
  • Separate filetypes and widgets to their own files
  • fixed #60: USB doesn't disappear if you mouse out of the window
  • Support for unicode domain names
  • Reduce "margin for error" around left/right detection
  • add "tel:" protocol
  • Use the same font as the normal status bar
  • New "updateURI" code allows widgets to react to changes in the uri alter descriptive text when modifier keys are pressed
  • downloadable files now alter the destination to be "download"

 

Release notes for older versions can be found here.

Ultimate Status Bar is the first Safari extension available from the team that created the highly recommended Interclue and Lazarus addons for Firefox & Chrome, which have been collectively downloaded over 3 million times.