That damn statusbar

I got a netbook, so naturally, I spend a lot of time on the 'net with it, which means Firefox. A lot of Firefox.

The netbook I have is an Asus Eee PC 901, with a resolution of 1024 * 600. The width is perfect for web browsing, but occasionally the 600 vertical pixels puts things under the fold when I don't want it to. To get around this, I use Firefox's fullscreen F11 mode.

Fullscreen mode will occupy the whole screen, GNOME panel be damned. It hides the title bar, window decorations and the browser controls.

It also hides the status bar.

Now the status bar doesn't seem to do an awful lot. When you load a page, it shows progress messages, but one really useful thing it does is display the URL of the link under the mouse.

The first time I went into fullscreen mode was like flying blind. I felt like a cripple, groping blindly for direction. As a nerd, browsing the tubes without seeing the URLs is terrifying, because you know there's shit out there you don't want to step on.

The URL in the status bar shows two important things.

1. Domain - Dodgy domain? Screw you. External link? Should probably middle-click into a new tab. Internal link? Loads as fast as this page did.
2. File extension - Let's face it, most URLs just point to files. I'll treat an MP3 or PDF file very differently from a no-pressure HTML page: no loading of plugins or downloading of multi-megabyte files to see if the wait was worth it.

I've blasted Firefox about UI crap before, but this isn't quite the same thing. I don't mind not having a status bar, but there must be some way of still showing me my precious URL. Maybe as tooltips. Somebody make a Greasemonkey script/Firefox plugin.

Pretty please?