as of last week I had a status bar in chrome. i know it's not on full time, but it does show up when necessary (or at least it did)
it was useful for 2 things
page loading status
link hover info
not sure what happened, but it's gone and i can't find any settings for it.
i did not install any extensions to have it in the past.
5 Answers
It is a bug, try this:
- Open Chrome Settings
- Select "Show Advanced Settings"
- Scroll down to "System"
- un-check "Use hardware acceleration when available"
As I said in the comments this is a Chrome bug (Issue 345698) and there is no actual/perfect solution to this, one can only wait till the Chrome Developers fix the problem.
10This bug has a long history in Chrome of appearing several times, as well as being fixed several times. Turning off hardware acceleration sometimes fixes it, but perhaps only incidentally because it restarts Chrome. Reinstalling Chrome sometimes also helped momentarily.
It was last "fixed" in version 34.0.1838.2 :
Issue 341879: REGRESSION: Status bar/bubble and tooltips no longer appear,
but was observed to be triggered again when any drop-down list was used.
Then came
Issue 345698: REGRESSION: URL Not Displaying in Lower-Left Corner When Hovering Over Link
in which the latest entry from 2014-03-11 seems to promise a final solution.
The issue is marked as Closed on Mars 10.
I suggest waiting for these fixes to find their way into the official version. Better keep an eye on Issue 345698 and relaunch it if necessary. The bug has to be fixed in Chrome itself, as there is no workaround possible for it except restarting Chrome.
It should be noted that this is not one bug that reappears again and again, but rather multiple bugs having the same effect. There is no guarantee that the bugs fixed in Issues 345698 and 341879 are the last of their kind.
2I run Chrome tiled, side by side and notice the status bar disappearing from time to time.
To get it back, I create a new empty tab and then drag my already open tabs to that new empty one. The status bar reappears. I can then close the empty one where the status bar had disappeared and retile to get everything arranged the way I want it.
2I found out a "workaround", if you right-click the link, for the moment you hold the button pressed you can see the address, hope it helps. cheers
2It is very easy and simple. Just press and hold the Ctrl and scroll up or down with the mouse, the Status bar will appear on the upper right corner. Then you can adjust to zoom in or out the page.
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