Perhaps one thing that I don’t like about Firefox is the status bar. It just plainly shows you the page’s loading progress. It’s a good thing it has become one of the common places for your installed extensions to hang out. But for a power user like me, just showing the progress bar and notifying me with “Done” when the page has finished loading is quite lame. Even the throbber tells you that.

I really love for my status bar to contain some really handy information about the page I’m browsing and Firefox’s system resource utilization. So here are two extensions that can beef up the status bar with a lot of information.

Extended Statusbar

Extended Statusbar provides you with just a bit more information about the page that you’re browsing. It includes these probably helpful information:

• Number of loaded images
• Bytes downloaded
• Average download speed
• Load time
• Percentage of the page loaded

Download Extended Statusbar here.

StatusbarEx

StatusbarEx gives you more in-depth information about Firefox in relation to your system. It shows you the following information:

• System memory
• Firefox’s memory usage
• Firefox CPU usage
• Network adapter speeds

You need the Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 Runtime Library for this one to work though.

Download StatusbarEx here.