At least three readers of this blog saw the black navigation bar on Google's homepage today.
YouTube also tests a black player, so the two experiments could be connected.
Update: A lot of people see the new design, so it's hard to say if it's a test or a gradual roll-out. If you clear Google's cookies, do you still see the black bar?
{ Thanks, David, Francesc and Don. }
"""1. First, install GreaseMonkey:
ReplyDeletehttps://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
2. Second, install GoogleBar Classic GreaseMonkey script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105744
Say bye to black bar."
Seriously? It bothered you that much that you had to waste time making a greasemonkey script for it?
If people would spend as much time on things that mattered as they do on useless things on the internet, the world would be amazing. ""
I guess you with your needless comment wasted your own time.
I applaud the guy for the Greasemonkey script....a big thank you - I've installed it and it works like charm...
I've got it, and I hate it. I hope they change back quickly. I really liked the light-colored bar.
ReplyDeleteThey also changed the bar when you access it through a mobile browser, adding large picture icons. I don't like that either.
I wish Google would stop making this type of change without at least giving us an option of whether we want it or not. I HATE the black toolbar! I also dislike iGoogle. I keep changing it back to the Classic Google, but every time my computer is restarted, there it is again. Hey Google, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!
ReplyDeleteIt makes it hard for an old man with vision difficulties to read. Please give us a choice so we don't have to change browsers.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
This seventy-two year old loves to search the web.
It's just sooooooooo negative, please Google admit that you made a boo-boo.
ReplyDeleteAlso noticed it since a few days.
ReplyDeleteNo difference using other browser.
Don't like it.
No other way to undo this black bar??
This is the longest crap Google ever created then place it on more & more pages...
ReplyDeleteIt's like Google falling in a damn Black Hole!
This colour, or any colour except WHITE or TRANSPARENT (aero like) it's fundamentally wrong for Google to use as background for the navigation bar!
I saw it today too...aaand yesterday.....and the day before....etc...
ReplyDeletePossibilities
ReplyDelete1 Google has no older people working there so that stupid ideas get past quality control without any intelligent discussion.
2 Google hates people with vision problems.
3 Google died and this is its funeral notice.
4 No one at Google actually works on a PC and so has no understanding of what real screens look like and how people use them.
The black bar ranks down there with the horrendous Mario game boondoggle - somewhere below stupid into unfathomable ignorance of the real world where real people work...
I'm praying that Google sees what a bad idea this is . . . . SOON.
ReplyDeleteIt looks cheap and depressing. As a bad advertisement.
ReplyDeleteThe new black toolbar Google has rolled out is against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as recommended by the w3.
ReplyDeleteGray text against a black background does NOT ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.
Please see: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-color-contrast
Am I the only one who likes it. I think it looks good and it fits in with my background image. But I think there should still be an option to change it back.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the marketing fools have no idea why monitors with a black border around the screen could never comply with the TCO-03 norm...
ReplyDeleteUsers of the Internet, unite!
Here is another partial fix for Google's wanton act of corporate arrogance:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105735
I don't like it!
ReplyDeleteIt is hideous, disgusting, and smacks of arrogance. It's just like how Google Instant is shoved down our throats as the default setting.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly it, I don't care if a company wants to try some new design but don't FORCE me to accept it without the very simple option of having a choice.
I think this must be some kind of sick joke on
ReplyDeleteGoogle's part.
Anyway, just found this new search engine called Yahoo or something and it seems pretty good to me - faster than Google and returns fewer commercial junk links. I could get used to it pretty soon.
Do the right thing Google, and sack whoever's idea it was.
Why?????
ReplyDeleteIs there a Google VP who needs to do this crap to justify his/her existence and $$$salary???
Grey letters on a black background????
WTF???
Unreadable!!!
At least give users a choice, then pay the dickheads who made this decision a proportion of their salary according to the number of users who opt for it.
I really dislike this black bar. Please add it as colour-option to the settingspage so I'm able to choose a former layout. Thanks in advance.
ReplyDeleteI hate the bar. Leave us alone Google. Don't "F" this clean page up.
ReplyDeleteYou can also use the Stylish plugin for Firefox or Chrome to change it back. http://userstyles.org/ There are several user-made options already there which fix it, and which work for the many countries' versions.
ReplyDeleteTake control of the look of web sites you visit!
Another comment... I am not a big fan of yahoo's search engine, but if you go to:
ReplyDeletesearch.yahoo.com
then there is a clean, clutter free page just like Google.
oh noes GOOGLE! dont you realise that your killing little children with this black bar and it's soooo ugly!! i use it all the time because I never have more than one google app open at a time so I HAVE to use this bar to navigate between your different applications like gmail, reader, docs, sites, etc. how am i suppose to use the internets now!!1?? WHAT?
ReplyDeleteI will have 2 start using bing because they have a nice white on grey bar instead which i find MUCH easier to se..
please PLease Derek Shmith, make your people change it back or i think i will die!!!1!
I thought someone had died call me stupid but google usually do a design in some way that relates to something that's going on.
ReplyDeleteNot keen on the black band
this black menu bar on google is the ugliest thing ever. disabling the cookies didn't do anything. can't they remove this crap? it is so annoying, i don't even feel like opening up google's homepage anymore.
ReplyDeleteGoogle, stop it right now - this instant! I cannot read it. What has gone wrong over there?
ReplyDeleteJust remove the black bar because it will bring the bad black lucky to the Google. With thanks,
ReplyDeleteThank God there's GreaseMonkey! One of the best ways to keep your sanity with the Google's "innovations"!
ReplyDeleteJust switched all my computers and their browsers to default to Bing which keeps away this hideous Google toolbar (and probable security flaw). Wow...how rude of Google.
ReplyDeleteechoes of the 'new coke"
ReplyDeletehte functionality of google gets worse every day and the arrocgance of google gets greater - any suggestions for a replacement welcome
ReplyDeletewell it's pretty obvious. They're finally turning evil. If you find google taking over the world, don't say you didn't see the signs.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI am in USA, and I started to search online (in Google) if this was a bug or if everyone had it. I decided after reading your post that I think that google is slowly going through and changing them to black for tests to see if we like it, and they can tell by posts like this. But, unfortunately, that probably cannot be said because it would take time to research each and every person and get every IP and do all of the time for that. So, I conclude, that there probably are just different areas that they (The black navigation bars) are in. I myself have no opinion to the black bars, and I hope that nobody else really gives much notice to them. I guess I just searched it because I was curious. If you have any questions you think I might be able to answer about the problem, you can email me at, ummmm, pat@example.com.
Black bar is too bold/contrasty. Get rid of it. And in mobile Safari on iOS 4, the huge icons are a real problem. When you first go to Google and touch the X to enter new search terms, then start typing in the window, the icons go from small to large and suddenly you find you have selected the 2nd or 3rd tab and are no longer searching the Web. A terrible interface design flaw. I did not ask for big icons and I do not want them. I will switch now to Yahoo or Bing.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Seriously? It bothered you that much that you had to waste time making a greasemonkey script for it?"
ReplyDeleteGoogle is not above criticism and the responsibility to provide an option rest w/ the company that wrote the annoying software. It's rude, impolite, arrogant i.e. not the way to do software - TO NOT PROVIDE AN "X" TO SET IT BACK TO THE CLASSIC FORM OR TO NOT PROVIDE AN EASY-TO-FIND OPTION TO CHOOSE THE COLOR. By the way you freaking google goon troll, breaking UI familiarity can easily "bother" millions people and therefore waste countless hours with people trying to figure out what it is and turn it off. People need familiarity and CONSISTENCY.
*GET* *A* *FREAKING* *CLUE*
I just got this heavy black bar in my screen.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's too agressive.
I don't get the its purpose.
Hope Google guys will take it out.
this is just plain stupid, i actually thought it was an error, in fact it simply appears that someone has inverted the colours of the bar, it does nothing, i liked it when it was given a more smooth look, but tbh, this is annoying, and the more recent change to the look of the search ting, in web mode is just pointless... you're annoying me
ReplyDeleteHate the black bar. Is it me or is Google getting worse? Do they listen to users? How about a SIMPLE design? How about the OPTION to keep the original settings? Have not thought about switching to other Search Engines until the past recent months. Keep it simple.
ReplyDeleteGOOGLE WHATS UP WITH THIS BLACK BAR,ARE YOU ALL ON CRACK YOU ALL ARE A BUNCH OF SCREW BALLS TO PUT SOMETHING ON HERE LIKE THIS !!! PLEASE GET RID OF IT....
ReplyDeletevisually find it very hard to read with the lack of contrast. Google - this is clearly not working! hope you will remove this.
ReplyDeleteI think it looks horrible. If they don't remove it I will be chosing an alternate search engine as my home page.
ReplyDeleteapparently it's meant to draw attention to all google's services. to me, it's an assault on my senses...if they don't turf it, i'll turn my attention to yahoo or, god forbid, microsoft!
ReplyDeleteI'm voting with my feet. Until Google remove the hideous black nav bar, all my browsers now have a YAHOO! home page, it's refreshingly minimal and gives surprisingly fine search results!
ReplyDeleteI'm voting with my feet. Until Google remove the hideous black nav bar, all my browsers now have a YAHOO! home page, it's refreshingly minimal and gives surprisingly fine search results!
ReplyDeleteAsk Jeeves is quite plain
ReplyDeleteGoogle, have you seen enough yet? Get it sorted !
ReplyDeleteIt does seem rather arrogant and counterproductive for Google to dump this on us with no option to keep the old one...which is not an eye sore and blends in with all other themes.
ReplyDeleteVery bad. How to get back the older one?
ReplyDeleteit looks really bad
ReplyDeleteYeah I've removed the fckg black shit bar, but how to get the language tools option back on the page?
ReplyDeleteI know we can find it in the option but I'd like to have it as it was!
Really not very smart from Google to force us instead of letting us tune the page the way we like it.
After deleting cookies...i still have that black tab on top of the google-India page....
ReplyDeletealso saw it, and love it !!
ReplyDeleteFor Firefox Users:
ReplyDeleteI made a userstyle to revert to the real classic navigation bar.
Install the plugin "Stylish" to use it.
http://userstyles.org/styles/50028/google-classic-navigation-bar-international
The black line is annoying i hope some one will take interest to change it or tell me how to do it i feel like braking my own PC
ReplyDelete30 June 2011:
ReplyDelete...... Mr gOOgLE, please not the black bar experiment not right now it is so inappropriate in view of where we are going, nationally as a people, it has an ‘arm band’ feel about it and we as a nation are struggling to avoid the beginning of the beginning and you amongst most should see that sad trend emerging. Please cut it out and stop rocking the boat there’s enough of that on the horizon without you [google] getting in on the scary action.
Be the friend you like to think you are especially right now!
Totally ugly!!!!
ReplyDeleteI do NOT like the new black bar at the top of the Google search results page. Please remove it or give users an option to remove it. It is WAY too distracting, & ruins the look of any background design.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you're alienating users with visual disabilities - NOT a good PR move
Where is Advanced Search???? Language Tools? arghh!
If you want some new feature to be tied in, just make some new colored button, not this distracting, ugly, black bar!
I am not very computer savy. It is a new learning experience for me every time I turn this machine on. I am a creature of habit and when I find something I like I really try to STICK WITH IT. I don't like change. Now, I don't mean to sound crass or give the impression that I am a low life, so please excuse me when I say STOP FUCKING WITH MY COMPUTER!!!!!! Please put the damn thing back the way it was prior to today 30 June. While trying to remove the black bar, I have pressed every damn thing on this box and I probably have removed more things than I should have. Wouldn't it have been somewhat polite to notify people or maybe even ask permission? How would you like it if I came into your house one day and all of a sudden your underware was in a different drawer, your toothpaste was where your shaving cream was and your mouthwash and underarm spray were switched? Pissed...upset... I'll bet. Please, leave me alone and put the friggin thing back the way it was and give us/me the option to change.........if we so desire.
ReplyDeleteI think the new design looks awful. The black bar on the top, the smaller logo et. the old design looked clean and fresh.Please change it back.
ReplyDeleteI don't like it at all... black and RED?? nono it looks like an ugly cheap blog that wanted to seem fancy... Keep it simple! Peace
ReplyDelete=)
Wow. Anyone try the GreaseMonkey fix? I am no computer tech so I can't fix it if I mess it up. Does it work okay?
ReplyDeleteGoogle your black bar sucks. I can't read the search results properly now. You obviously haven't given a single thought to users with visual impairments. I'll be using bing.com in future.
ReplyDeleteNaughty, Naughty Black Strip across Google Menu bar. Take it away!
ReplyDeletethis addition sucks google--- what the F is wrong with you guys lately? these changes you make are annoying as hell and I for one and sick of it. To remove: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105735
ReplyDeleteGoogle has lost it this time. About time to say bye.
ReplyDeleteCheck the Microsoft's Bing search page (http://www.bing.com). Even it's gray menu on the top of the page looks a lot better than Google's horrible black bar. What were they thinking (if anything)?
ReplyDeletewe are being mind fucked by google. I think they want to see what people do. How they react. You can go to settings, personal, and themes and find one that gets rid of the black bar. But really google, did you have to do it this way? Not very good form.
ReplyDeleteBlack is bad. One of the worst google design decisions ever, seems that you have hired Skype Mac designers - who just dont have a clue. Im going to load Greasemoneky script now.
ReplyDeleteI hate it. Change it back or allow customization. It's distracting.
ReplyDeletePleaase remove this horrible black bar!!
ReplyDeleteI guess you must all be loving the other UI changes that have been taking place over the last few days then?
ReplyDeleteGo here, a lot more comments, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6b698ff5a134894f&hl=en
ReplyDeleteTime to start looking for Search-Engines to gradually replace Google.
ReplyDeletehttp://erur.atspace.com/r/Random-Search-Engine.htm
Yes here's black too! I like it, I use FF5 with BlackFox V1 Blue so all menus are black! Cool!
ReplyDeleteSame at http://www.google.be, hate it.
ReplyDelete& I don't want to spend hours on trying out stuff to change.
If this remains I'll be considering the bing experience
AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL going back to yahoo for home page
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely do NOT like the Black Bar
ReplyDeleteUse www.google.cm instead! (it's the Cameroon google page and doesn't have a blackbar)
ReplyDeleteGreat Solution using GreaseMonkey to get rid of the stupid black line. Thanks.
ReplyDeletePlease direct your thoughts to http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6b698ff5a134894f&hl=en&start=960
ReplyDeleteThe black bar is EVIL.
ReplyDeletePlease direct your thoughts to - USING SOMETHING OTHER THAN GOOGLE PRODUCTS AND telling everyone you can that "changing" everything around every 10 months is NOT the polite thing to do with software.
ReplyDeleteApparently Google does not value it's users opinions in the least. OR Google is trying to get rid of it's users so they will start using BING or some other search site.
ReplyDeleteit would be a lot easier on the eyes if the bar was white or in any case consistent with the background picture if a user choses to customize the google search page
ReplyDeleteGo to this forum for even more comments:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6b698ff5a134894f&hl=en&fid=6b698ff5a134894f0004a766e97f2563
There is some debate as to how many people like the incessant google frivolous UI changes and how many don't. Here's the true test. If google kept their annoying UI inventions off by default, and made everything an option when it's released, no-one would use it - THAT tells you how many people "like" their busy, annoying, wrong-color UI BS. A classic interface choice should ALWAYS be provided for users.
ReplyDeleteDon't like it, found it quite distracting.
ReplyDeleteWould appreciate a way to turn it off without cookies...
I hate this black bar. It really annoys me. Also I don't want google to manupulate my results. I want real results not a catered to fit results. It is not natural.
ReplyDeleteI hate the black bar. It looks very ugly!!! Please remove it google......
ReplyDeleteThe GreaseMonkey script posted on June 29, 2011 at 2:53 AM WORKED!!! I now have the white bar with black text back. Thank you for this tip.
ReplyDeleteThe above post is EDT.
ReplyDeleteI just changed my home page enough said..
ReplyDeleteSwitch back to ie6
ReplyDeleteNo black bar in ie6
yahoo here i come
ReplyDeleteYahoo here i come
ReplyDeleteWhy install a script to remove google script ?
ReplyDeleteHere is the Name of of the fucking problem
http://www.google.com/extern_js/f/CgJubxICbm8rMEU4ACwrMFo4ACwrMA44ACwrMBc4ACwrMDw4ACwrMFE4ACwrMAo4AEAdLCswFjgALCswGTgALCswJTgALCswNTgALCswQTgALCswTTgALCswTjgALCswVDgBLCswaTgALCswGDgALCswJjgALIACSZACQw/ERO-0lq8Qsw.js
GOOGLE FIX THIS
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The Google Black Bar has to go.
ReplyDelete1. It is visually jarring and disconnects you from the Google Home Page.
2. The white 'background' lettering is too small and very hard to read.
3. The longer the Black Bar is foisted upon us, the more we will believe that Google is truly insensitive to the popular demand for a default browser that is truly simple and not the result of Larry Page and Sergey Brin and their minions sequestering themselves into a sound-proof turret.
the black bar is horrible,get rid of it now!
ReplyDeleteit's getting me crayyyyzzzzzzzyyyyyy.
aggravating, ugly, and obviously Google doesn't care if their users think it sucks. It shows up in Safari, IE, and Firefox. Maybe I'll download Lynx again. Back to the old days!
ReplyDeleteI hate it. Installed GreaseMonkey to change it back to white. It ruined the look of my homepage screen. I know that the links are up there, thanks very much, and I have no plans, what-so-ever to use Google+ so stop trying to encourage me to.
ReplyDeleteditto with everyone here, that black bar is really hard for those with vision issues, and not only that, it stinks. give us a choice please.
ReplyDeleteI liked Google when it was simple.
ReplyDeleteSeems that people just aren't happy with leaving things as they are. Even if it means doing something silly like placing an ugly black google bar to show some work.
Why don't Google give us a option to let us choose the color of the bar?
ReplyDeleteI found I can get rid of it by using Bing
ReplyDeleteQuote "...simply because they changed the navigation bar a little bit. Your pathetic whining makes me so..."
ReplyDeleteIt's called FAMILIARITY, USER EFFICIENCY, UI CHOICE, CUSTOMIZATION, none of these things you apparently believe in you google fan boy F@#% and neither does GooGull believe in customization in this day and age of software "progress". The only progress google knows is making it "prettier" every 3.5 months and $$$.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
ReplyDeleteI preferred the old Google page and Youtube. It used to be clean and sleek, but now it looks like a weird Internet collage. If Google doesn't change it back soon, I'm going to find a greasemonkey script that will.
When I first saw it, about a month ago.I thought it was the redirect bug that I just got rid of.Which was a big pain until I found out everyone else had it too. I would like a little heads up on any visual changes in the future.Otherwise,I got used to it.Back to grey now.
ReplyDeletegood grief... this stupid mystery search bar covers my first row of icons... way to go google
ReplyDeleteObviously someone some at google is trying to justify their paycheck and Christmas bonus by tinkering and messing things up.I would get rid of the black bar and get rid of the person who came up with this idea.
ReplyDeleteDear Google,
ReplyDeleteit's been over a month and the black bar still makes me vomit every time I visit your website.
Please do the world a favor and get rid of it.
Thank you.
How to remove Google's Black Navigation Bar:
ReplyDeleteMany people complain about Googles Black Navigation Bar,
When you use Google as your home page. I have spent hours
On the Web for answers and nobody had one, until I figured,
How to get rid of it. It is very simple. Don't use Google.
Use another Search Engine. Like Webcrawler, Yahoo, Lycos,
Alta Vista etc. That is it! No Black Bar and Google looses
A bunch of Money. I like Google but I don't like that Black Bar.
By Mister SCG
The new layout with the dark bar at the top, and blue outline is so UGLY, Google... Change it back to a clean layout!
ReplyDeleteI really hate this new google search. Yes some of us are still on dial-up! My connection is too slow to deal with the immediate searches as I type... I get hung up all the time. It is on my last $*@^@$^ nerve!
ReplyDeleteWhenever i see a black background or a black toolbar on a site, i just automatically assume that the designer is weak lazy clueless trend-follower, and nothing to see here..
ReplyDeleteRule of thumb:
Black = Vista
I find this extremely arrogant!
ReplyDeleteGive us a choice. Stop experimenting with my f..n home page.
get rid of the ugly thing, have it as a hidden dropdown menu,IF you must have it at all
ReplyDeleteit is distracting and ugly
ReplyDeleteFuck me. You guys are a bunch of whiners. The black bar was a way to integrate all of google's products (including google+ which has just been made public) into one entity. If you sign into your google account everything is all in one place now, your mail, your calendar, your google+ account. I think its brilliant and I actually like the black color, it looks new.
ReplyDeleteHow can a color be "aggressive"? Sensitive much?
ReplyDeleteQuote "The black bar was a way to integrate all of...I think its brilliant and I actually like the black color, it looks new."
ReplyDeleteBoth YOU and GOOGLE are ANTI-CHOICE when it comes to UI look&feel and behavior. Both you and GOOGLE are in favor of annoying, animated, mouseover, cpu-intensive, in-your-face, "change it for no reason", can't turn-it-off UI "inventions" that serve nothing but to annoy millions of people on a daily basis and that means you are ULTRA-ARROGANT and will be criticized everywhere possible. Tons of progress for $$$ but zero progress for *NATIVE* USER CUSTOMIZATION how "progressive."
I'm trying to get rid of the thing!
ReplyDeleteSometimes when I reboot my other tool bar turns black on ie8. So I have to reboot again.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say google is no longer my homepage.
Between the black navigation bar which I cannot read and MSN hijacking my Google home page regularly, I'm a bit frustrated.
ReplyDeletePlease allow us to turn this off. IT'S HORRIBLE!!
ReplyDeleteExperimental? Test? Please, not on my browser. How can I get rid of this page pollution?
ReplyDelete"brilliant?" I thought that Google "got it." Never ever let your "we can do anything" tech staff drive your internet presence. How do I get rid of this thing in IE?
ReplyDeleteWhy should I have to install additional and unwanted programs/scripts/what-have-you in order to eliminate a black bar that causes me to take additional steps in order to do what I used to be able to do with one click. The menu items that used to be where the solid black bar now sits were very useful.
ReplyDeleteIs Google becoming another Microsoft or eBay?
Sure looks that way. I've even had to go to Bing to read some news articles that are now banned or barred to Google users.
Google is starting to get like MSN and all the rest.
ReplyDeleteNo more simple clean home page that we all loved.
It starts with simple add ons , then the black line, now the blue line Ads all over the home page not far in the future
I said booo! to removing the black bar. This new - new google-shmit is real suckey.
ReplyDeletehate it.......please change it
ReplyDeleteWill be looking for a new search engine......any good ones out there?
ReplyDeleteI f**king hate all those extra bars...any bars.
ReplyDeleteI want simplicity.
Blank Screen search - (o.k cute little changing logo ) but nothing else
WTF Google...
Im not the type to usually chime in.
Never thought something would anger me so much
If something doesn't change soon, I am forever changing my home page to something that's not Google
P.S I don't want to have to learn a trick , or get another software to remove what shouldn't be there.
you should do an article on how the internet has become THE ultimate system for tracking and monitoring individuals effectively destroying any concept of privacy without a squeak from the masses.
ReplyDeleteI hate it how I'm constantly distracted by how pretty new the design is.
ReplyDeleteoh grow the f#ck up, "Im going to leave america because of its black bars, ill move to... texas, where white peo.. bars are white bars!
ReplyDeleteMarketing is in charge of software now, because of a greed/love for money, even though google is the richest software company THEY HAVE TO HAVE MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE. Marketing being in charge is what ruined WinDoze in 2006 (Windoze F'Ya') and now Google in 2010/2011 with the arrogance of UI-OUR-WAY or the highway and very few or just abstract "options" instead of letting the USER control the layout of the USER interface. It's just plain money-loving arrogance and people need to start getting a clue. It would be EASY for google and the other LARGE software companies to provide FULL UI layout options and retain a classic-look for web products.
ReplyDeleteIt's now 2012. I too hated the black bar, but now it seems to have gotten worse with a big huge thing on the left that doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteI miss classic and just being able to click the translate link on the right hand side of the search bar. So much easier back then. Now I have to click 'more'. ( One day google had a good idea to put translate on the black bar, but that soon too went to 'more'later on. )
Black bar...was stupid.
New design with big thing at the left...even stupider.
I wonder if that greasemonkey script still works?
@alexchitu, good lookin out on the black bar! While it certainly doesn't seem to be the most popular aesthetic choice ever made by Google, your post was the first to make me aware of it, so thanks!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm missing something here, but did Google roll this w/out the ability to "revert back" to the classic UI like they typically do? I'm assuming "no", owing to the of level of rancor on this forum.
I understand that it's more than just a black strip, it's a threat to one of the core design principals that attracted so many of you to Google (the whole Einstein "simple as possible but no simpler" thing), but really, these are what Louis C.K. would plainly call
"white people problems"...
eheh,
Christian Hunter
Austin, Texas
The Black bar effects some banking sites and makes it impossible to enter your password on the special keypad, because where it used to be white with black numbers, it is now black with no numbers, so you have no idea what you are entering. Thanks Google for making something useful now useless!
ReplyDeleteJust used Explorer to access a bank site because the black bar search makes it impossible to use the secret code pad of this particular bank site, no problem with explorer as google bar on there is white! It only seems to be the crome google bar that is black. Think I'll deleate crome cause it has problems with Adobe reader too, keeps refussing to work, tells me to download then refuses to download Adobe Reader because apparently you dont need it with crome, but crome wont play clips on u tube and other, so it is a real F@*&#NG mess up at crome if you ask me, it's not worth it, thow out crome and use firefox or go back to explorer.
ReplyDeletelose the black bar too distracting,hate it....
ReplyDeleteHow is how I removed/disabled the black navigation bar without installing any plugins or use any scripts (it is very easy!):
ReplyDeletehttp://tweakdump.blogspot.com/2011/11/lean-google-homepage.html
If you haven't already got the "ADBLOCK PLUS" ADD-ON installed for FIREFOX (I'm using Firefox 10) you can download it from here http://adblockplus.org/en/ and after installing it, click as follows TOOLS/ Adblock Plus/ Filter Preferences/Add Filter (over in the right-hand panel). Add these two filters to remove the 'blackbar' ##div#gbx3 and ##div#gbx4 and it's goodbye 'blackbar'. Also, if you have that pesky 'install google chrome' button showing and you want it GONE, add this filter ##div#pmocntr2.pmoabs
ReplyDeleteWhen using Google Chrome this black bar almost totally obscures the search panel for me making search almost impossible.
ReplyDeleteIt's gone now!!!
ReplyDeleteSee new logo