Liquid Glass disfigured the Safari status bar

This blog post may be coming a year late, but I’m still running macOS Sequoia on my main Mac, macOS Tahoe only on a secondary Mac, so there are subtle Liquid Glass changes that take a long time for me to notice. I haven’t seen anyone else mention this one, though. The Safari status bar, enabled in Safari’s View menu, displays the URL of a link on hover. Here’s how it looks on Sequoia: The screenshot is of an old blog post of mine, which I was using to reproduce another Safari bug (Reddit links take 15+ seconds to load when opened in a background tab). And here’s how it looks on Tahoe: It hasn’t changed much between Tahoe and Golden Gate: Two differences should be noted between Sequoia and the later macOS versions, which both adopted the Liquid Glass design. First, on Sequoia the background of the status bar is gray, distinguishing it and the link URL from the web page content it covers, whereas on Tahoe and Golden Gate the background of the status bar appears to be the same color as…