Viewing Multiple Channels
The easiest way to view many channels at the same time is tiling or cascading the channel windows. Tiling allows you to view the contents of all channels that you are on.
Once you open or join channels, there is no reason for you to keep the status box viewable. You can not close this box so you need to minimize it to the toolbar. To minimize it, from the righ top corner of the status box, click on the third icon from the left.

To tile or cascade your open channels, from the menu select Window and then tile or cascade.
Using the icons at the end of the toolbar you can select either tile
or cascade
.