How I Browse

LTWP:

Does anybody else feel completely naked when web-surfing without the status bar?

No. Here’s a screenshot of my Safari:

Everything is hidden but the tabs, but is all accessible via the default keyboard shortcuts. ⌘-T opens and selects a new, empty tab; ⌘-L shows and selects the location bar; I type something in there and hit return; the location bar hides again and the tab loads the URL I entered (or search term, in the Google box). My most-visited sites are in the bookmarks bar, all reachable via ⌘-(1-9), and Facebook is my homepage (⌘-Shift-H). Shortwave is on ⌘-5 though I haven’t gotten used to using that yet.

I will admit to sometimes missing the status bar for the same reasons Lukas states, and often have to hit ⌘-/ to check where a link is going if it isn’t obvious. I’m tempted to build a little user script that appends a DIV to the bottom of the window on link hover, like a conditional status bar. I think Chrome does something like this?

I do the same thing in Firefox, which I use for developing (Safari’s web inspector simply doesn’t compare to Firebug). However, Firefox doesn’t really like keyboard shortcuts, so I can’t toggle Firebug from my keyboard, and the button to do so with the mouse is in the status bar, so that sometimes gets annoying. It is an imperfect system in Mozilla land.

Also, yes, still using Safari 3. I really don’t want to upgrade. Although the tab bar as title bar would save me even MORE space and ooh suddenly that is very tempting.