The Missing FireFox Extension

Okay, so FireFox went 1.0 and if you’re still using Internet Explorer you’d be crazy not to download and run it. More features than IE, and much less security risk.

One of the cool things about FireFox are all of the extensions that add to the browser’s usefulness. But there’s still one extension I have yet to see.

Back when it was still called FireBird, FireFox had a cool feature where it would tell you in the status bar exactly how long the page you were viewing too to load. That feature got removed based on the claim that it was a developer-only style feature that normal users didn’t care about. An alternate version is that people complained (wrongly in my view) that early builds of FireBird/Fox were slower than IE.

Regardless, it was a useful feature and I for one hope someone writes an extension that restores that capability.

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