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Example of an infobar in Mozilla Firefox.

An infobar is a widget used by Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and other programs to display non-critical information to a user. An infobar is increasingly seen as preferable to dialog boxes because it does not interrupt the user's activities, but rather allows the user to read extra information on their own time.

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-An '''infobar''' is a [[widget]] used by [[Microsoft]] [[Internet Explorer]], [[Mozilla]] [[Firefox]] and other programs to display non-critical information to a user. An infobar is increasingly seen as preferable to [[dialog boxes]] because it does not interrupt the user's activities, but rather allows the user to read extra information on their own time.
+An '''infobar''' is a [[GUI widget|widget]] used by [[Microsoft]] [[Internet Explorer]], [[Mozilla]] [[Firefox]] and other programs to display non-critical information to a user. An infobar is increasingly seen as preferable to [[dialog boxes]] because it does not interrupt the user's activities, but rather allows the user to read extra information on their own time.