Something occurred, likely in Apple's nightly snooping/"fixing" (..just a w.a.g.)

Missing-inaction is: display of link contents moused-over. I have little idea where the overlap occurs re. the OS and Safari's own ideas of a proper Display; it merely *seems* as-if the default images-size on screen thinks it is somewhere N. of "Normal" and closer to full-screen; just part-way, so I know not whence to sleuth nor how.

Any hints on stuff to try? (I suspect there's a whole subterranean group which messes about at these levels to perfect their own ideas of a Bitchin UI for their product (but I haven't added any new s/ware since days well before the Orange Menace brought chaos everywhere else). I suspect that if I can get a handle on "actual image size" re the 24" 'late-08 iMac (surely a ƒ[screen size + resolution], I can just ∆-increments and see if that L.L. corner address magically reappears.)

Thanks for any hints.

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Googling the symptom (what's missing and where, thus Why): got a few with similar prose. But ~2014 {sigh}. And I long ago gave up on O"Reilly's 'Missing Manual' [was that Pogue?] whose organization was verbose without clarity, though the index/way-back with Leopard ..would sometimes lead me through the book's quagmire. I'm on V.10.11.6 El Capitan==latest that would run. No aim to try El Capitan heavy-book; have too many Real ones to get-to.

Thou sayest truthiness; I can even retrace the villain: moi :-/

It seems that, aiming for [Edit] --> Autofill at some point, I hit [View] instead (but not ept/alert enough to realize that the Probable-cause/and restore! was also clearly labelled bloody-[VIEW] and of course, the missing Status-bar wasn't noticed immediately.

And I puts the thus-clueless query under Doze?! {{gah}}

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I blame it all on the mere æthereal-presence of The Orange Menace and His effects upon all neuronal processes.
Natch the 'Show status bar' line (should have been in RED-just-por-moi), had Apple-AI a fraction of the smarts of HAL-9000, eh?
(all the style-sheet fol-de-rol for HTML5 (just for one-word??), should we'unses next see a ∆-IWE? ..I don't want to think about, even.)

Thanks for helpin-out so precisely ..the drain bamage ..of just being in the dis-US post-'16.
Must immediately immerse in another Thomas Pynchon opus in order to defrag the neurons. Again.