And I also agree that the pop-up in Chrome works reasonably well for this too... however... However the Chrome pop-up has a tendency to obscure useful page con

And I also agree that the pop-up in Chrome works reasonably well for this too... however... However the Chrome pop-up has a tendency to obscure useful page content, especially on (oh, irony) Google docs. I much prefer a devoted status bar. OTOH, I have a WUXGA screen (1920x1200) so I have less need to obsess over vertical screen space. The rise of so-called "HD" screens is one of the tragedies of modern computing that ranks up there with Comic Sans.