Status bar
The status bar (Engl. Status bar ), and status bar called, is a passive control of a computer program or an operating system of a mobile device, which is usually at the edge of the screen is, in the former below the latter above, and information about the status of the program or any status or other notifications on the smartphone or tablet . In the latter case, a detailed overview is usually opened by pulling the bar down. A web browser, for example (see figure), shows how far the loading process of a website has progressed or whether all elements of the page have already been loaded; in a graphics program, on the other hand, it is often the current position of the mouse pointer on the work surface.
The status bar is usually divided into several sections by vertical lines, which sometimes also contain symbols (see illustration). For example, in a web browser, a closed padlock icon 
indicates that the current web page was transmitted over a secure connection .