Several Firefox add-ons utilize the space of the Firefox status bar to display icons, text and information which cannot be moved around by default. Total Toolbars makes it possible to move these icons around so that the icons and information are displayed in the order that the Firefox user wants them to appear.

Toolbars can be customized easily by right-clicking them in the Firefox browser after the installation of the add-on. It is then possible to move the icons and information around. These customization options on the other hand are only one aspect of Total Toolbars. The add-on will also display a new context menu entry toolbar properties.

It is here possible to change several display options of each toolbar. This includes the view mode (icons, icon and text or only text), if the toolbar should be visible in full screen mode or if small or flexible icons shall be displayed. Even more important is the fact that these settings can be changed for each toolbar individually to mix the view modes of the toolbars.

Total Toolbars is available for download at the mozdev website. It is compatible with all versions of the Firefox 3 web browser.

The extension provides four additional parameters that are displayed in the statusbar of Firefox. The number of images and how many have been loaded, the page size in Kilobyte, the download speed in Kilobyte per second and the time it took to download the complete website.

The benefit of using that extension is the additional information that are displayed by it. The display works perfectly fine on my 1280×1024 resolution, it might be problematic on monitors running on lower resolutions especially if additional information and icons are put in the statusbar.

The information take up roughly a third of the width of my computer screen.