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How to hide/disable the "status bar" ?
When you place your mouse over a link or image, a black stripe appears in the lower-left corner of the screen showing the address of that link or image. When you open a page, this "status bar" appear...
That seems to be hard coded into Chromium. From what I can tell it can't manually be turned off. I looked it up real fast, and I guess others in the past have inquired about this issue before:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/2cxyeq/how_do_i_turn_off_the_status_bar_the_little_bar/