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I would like to know how to hide the status bar label text. I'm talking about the text in the status bar that says for example:
Scripts Partially Allowed | <SCRIPT>: 35 | <OBJECT>: 0

It takes up quite a bit of status bar real estate, and I don't really care how many scripts are being blocked. I have Show... Status bar label unchecked in the Appearance tab. I have the icon there and want to keep it because I often allow scripts temporarily on pages, I know I could do it via right click, but I like the icon. If I turn on the label, hit ok, then go back into options and turn it off the label disappears. Then it comes back with a page reload. Also I just discovered that the icon does the same thing, but since I want to keep the icon anyway that isn't a problem. Also I've had this problem for a long time. I asked once before somewhere and got no solution. I've reinstalled Windows several times since the first time I ever noticed it, so it's not just a reinstall Firefox and/or Noscript solution.

Here's a screenshot of my options. Circled in red is what I want to hide.

http://daleswanson.org/noscript.jpg

Thanks for any help.

daleswanson wrote:Then it comes back with a page reload.

I assume by this you mean the Status bar label is still displayed. Does the "Status bar label" option become ticked all by itself too, or do you have a condition where the box is still unticked but the Status bar label is displayed?

Unticking "Status bar label" works for me. Sorry to hear it doesn't work for you. Here a some things to try:
1) Maybe the option is mysteriously stuck. Tick "Status bar label", save the Options with OK, then untick "Status bar label" and save the options again.
2) The NoScript settings got messed up somehow. Reset the NoScript Options by pressing Reset at the bottom of the Options dialog. Export your whitelist before doing that if you've added any trusted or untrusted sites you'd like to restore after NoScript is working again.
3) Your Firefox preferences aren't being saved. Follow the suggestions in this article. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

Hope this helps. Please let us know whether it does.

Well I discovered the problem. Turns out it's Stumbleupon in my status bar. After trying out all your suggestions I got to the general troubleshoots page and when I disabled all my extensions besides Noscript it worked. Then reenabling them one by one showed Stumble to be the problem. This also explains why it persisted for me even through reinstalls, because I always install SU and put it in the status bar.

If I move the SU buttons out of the status bar the Noscript label is hidden (it still requires me to check, hit ok, then uncheck and hit ok again, or restart FF). It also seems to work if I put SU last in the status bar. So the solution for me will simply to not have the SU buttons as I have them mapped to the mouse anyway. Still I suppose this is a bug either with SU or Noscript. I'd be happy to provide any additional info if you want it.

Thanks for the help.

You're welcome. Thank you telling us what fixed the problem. The developer reads these threads and will ask here if he needs any more info.

Alan, I was confused too since unchecking it works for me but his screen shot showed that it was unchecked so I was hesitant but guess now we know how it happened. Phew, thought I was losing it

Moving Stumbleupon out of the status bar solved the problem for me.

Thank you so much for a solution I have been looking for for a while.