Hide status bar or progress bar in Eclipse

Question

How can I hide the status bar in Eclipse? I mean the one at the bottom, where also the \"Progress\" status is shown. It is very distracting because it is doing something all the

Answer 1

With the new release of Eclipse, you can use the menu to hide the status bar.

see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501811