Shorten "Blocked: X of Y" text in status bar

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Thank you for the feedback Daniel. We're working on making this a feature with our next releases.

Great to hear this will be implemented.

Though technically more difficult to achieve one could envision a green ghostery icon with the number of services blocked (akin the count bubble with some mail and message services) and red ghostery icon with the number of services not blocked.

To the people requesting this:

• Are you using Ghostery on a Netbook?
• Do you have other Add-ons installed that consume space on the Status Bar?
• Is Ghostery's current behavior causing actual inconvenience, or is this primarily an aesthetic concern?

I'd say a mix of size and aesthetics. No inconvenience, really.

My personal situation is indeed that I primarily use a netbook (out of size convenience, even though I have half a dozen systems) and have half a dozen add-ons installed like FireShot, ForeCastfox, Gmail manager.

On the netbook it gets a bit cramped, as I'm sure you understand, while it doesn't matter space wise on a 20 or 24" screen.

Certainly wouldn't be opposed if the Ghostery icon had the option to reside elsewhere, like some in the menu bar or in the icon bar. Aesthetically speaking.

So far I really like the add-on, although I have a feature-request regarding the status bar display/ghost-counter thingie.
As of right now, it shows "Blocked: x of y", which is too clunky for me, as I prefer my status bar as small as possible. I'd rather have something like "x/y" and without the underscore. This would provide the same information without additional characters filling up the space.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Shorter status bar display.

Hi all, while we do not have customization of this message as a Ghostery feature in the near future, below I explain how to edit this message with just a text editor.

1) Locate ghostery installation folder: generally its in the profile directory. To find it you may use this: open Firefox and type about:support info the address. In the window that you will get, simply click "Open Containing Folder"

2) In the profile folder, navigate to extensions/firefox@ghostery.com/chrome/locale. At this point, pick the locale you are working with (if your Firefox is in english, pick en-US).

3) Finally, open ghostery.properties in a text editor of your choice. In this file you will see many entries that start with statusbar.xxxxxx. These are the entries you need to change to shorten/lengthen/edit the status bar message. Go nuts! =)

4) Restart Firefox for the new setting to take effect

Went from "we're working on it" to "we're not"?
I s'pose I can tweak it myself.