Anti-bar

Anti-bar

Removes black bar on top of Google.com, Gmail, and most Google apps.

What is Anti-bar?
Anti-bar is a Chrome extension that removes the black bar on top of Google.com, Gmail, and most Google apps. It provides a visually clean and distraction-free browsing experience, eliminating the need to dedicate vertical pixels for navigation. This extension runs in the background without accessing any page information, ensuring privacy.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 35 ▼ -6
Rating: 3.00 (3)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2012-03-31)
Creation date: 2012-03-30
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 47.59K
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Summary

This extension removes the black bar that Google now puts across the top of their applications. Use this extension if you (like me), find that spending 30 vertical pixels is too much in order to support simple navigation to things that you or may not want to use (and have other easy ways to get to). Furthermore, if you find the black bar visually jarring and distracting, and that it is essentially a continuous advertisement for Google services that you don't need to see, then this is for you.

The extension runs in the background and simply removes the black bar whenever a Google app is loaded (or refreshed). There is no visible user interface.

Privacy: This app does not access any page information of any kind - it simply runs once when the app is launched and removes the black bar - that's it.

User reviews
Works okay, but on G+, as you scroll down the stream, what's left of the bar is pinned and super-imposed over the posts, partially blocking the stream.
by A Google user, 2012-04-07
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Safety
Risk impact

Anti-bar is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Anti-bar has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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