In some rare cases, the status bar may stop working after an upgrade or a hard crash. This is usually caused by settings files being locked by the O.S. at the time of upgrade or custom toolbar layout information getting lost.
You will then not see any text indicating network activity, and hovered links don't show.
For the current version of Pale Moon:
- Go to the configuration editor by typing "about:config" in the address bar and pressing Enter
- Find the parameter "status4evar.firstRun" and double-click it to toggle the value until it is set to "true"
- Completely exit and restart the browser (Either File -> Exit or the blue Pale Moon button -> Exit)
For previous versions of Pale Moon only (v4-v9.2):