How to make the status/address bar disappear in Firefox or IE?

Question

I'm creating a website for a kiosk, and I need to make the bar that shows the page address you are about to go to at the bottom of Firefox or IE disappear. Please see the image.

Is it possible to make this bar disappear?

EDIT: Thanks to everyone's reply. I have tried the code Chris and Mrtsherman suggested, I'm not sure I missed something unfortunately none of it worked for me. Is it really not possible to hide the status bar for Firefox in the kiosk mode?

The problem I'm having is that I've got three divs on one page, so it goes like a photoslide when each div is clicked, the first div is an a tag entirely so the status bar is showing all the time. If making the status bar disappear not possible, is there any way I can set the cursor off the screen so that the status bar doesn't show all the time on the first div? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

If you'd like to use Internet Explorer, just create a shortcut in the client's startup folder that points to iexplore -k http://example.com. This will start IE in Kiosk Mode at the designated page, as soon as the kiosk machine starts.

Alernately, you could have the first page open a pop-up with code like this:

window.open(filename,"","width="+winwidth+",height="+winheight+",scrollbars=yes ,menubar=no,location=no,left=0,top=0") 

to open a window with no UI chrome.

Option 3: Try this, not sure if it will work. In firefox you can enable an option to allow the status text to be changed via javascript:

Tools -> Preferences -> Content -> Enable Javascript(click on the 'Advanced' Button) -> Change status bar text

Once you've done that in Firefox, add this snippet to your achor tags:

onmouseover="window.status=''; return true;"

I make no guarantees this will work as desired.