17.11.1998

One of the major annoyances of IE4 was the fact that you could seldom see a complete URL in the bottom left-hand corner of the browser. This was a major oversight by the development team, and I remember several hundred people complaining about it when IE4 was still in beta stages. Apparently, they didn't think it was important enough. Luckily, IE5's Status Bar was designed a bit better. If you don't want to wait for the final version of IE5, check out StatBar: http://mdbo.ne.mediaone.net/Statbar.html -- it'll widen the pane in IE4 so that you can view more of the URL's your mouse cursor hovers over. Granted, the software isn't perfect, but it's (sometimes) better than nothing.