im new to wow and dont know anything about these addons but after viewing some pics i see an addon w/ a long box on the top or bottom of ppl's screens showing hp/mp/gold/ammo etc etc anyone know which addon this is so i can find it and install it? thanx.

try Titanpanel. it shows a lot of things like gold, exp, coords and more. very useful :)

exactly what i was looking for tyvm

or FuBar or and of the lib data brokers.

I switched from FuBar to ChocolateBar, but any LDB bar mods have "lightweight" as a common property, which FuBar does not. And if there is something that only exists in FuBar, there is FuBar2Broker, an addon that will load those into any other bar.

I gained about 3-4 frames per second switching bar mods. Results may vary.