How to Remove the New Black Bar on Google.com

Wow, there is really no option in the Google settings itself. It does not sound googlelike to impose us their style.

This is bad protocol, implementation, and design on the part of Google. 

tsk tsk.

I use firefox, have installed Greasemonkey, then http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105744, worked a treat, got rid of black bar, now back to original!! sweet.

I really don’t see the big deal… eventually Google will allow you to change the bar, they will try it out see the feedback from it and do whatever it takes to keep us happy

Unfortunately it IS a big deal for blind users with screen readers like Jaws (MS win) and Orca (Linux). The new black bar freeze the possibility to read anything further than this bar. Unless you are blind user who knows how to use “virtual mouse click” Google is dead for the moment.
      //TS.

OK, I never though of blind users and if the the screen readers cannot function than this is a mistake on Google part. Maybe the screen readers will update to fix this problem…

Yeah, but then you have Greasemonkey’s logo on your browser which is more irrelevant clutter.  I wish Google would be content with overwhelming market share and not keep changing their flagship product.

Google has right forcing this stupid black bar on people.  At least have the option to have it or not have it.  I think it looks stupid and just takes up space and the black is very blinding.  Come on people get this crap off and let people enjoy just a plain, simple google page.  How would you feel if I were to force you to have junk on your computer that you don’t want.  Leave well enough along.  If you want to try different things do it on your computers.  Now give us an easy way to get this crap off.   Thank you.

If u use some other browser like Internet Explore you dont get this black bar.

Yes I can’t stand this black bar either – time to dump it Google.

I downloaded the “black bar hider script”, but I’m not happy with the result! How can I remove this script again?

sorry, already found the solution :
http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-uninstall-or-remove-user-scripts-greasemonkey-javascript-extensions-in-google-chrome/

I’m 24 hrs from removing google as my default homepage. I will continue to use google, but at this point I’m looking for alternatives. How is this a revenue stream?  

Dark, foreboding cloud over my Google head.

It’s not black, it’s dark brown!

I have issues with my eyes.  Black/white color breaks are extremely distracting.  I will be looking for another homepage and browser.  I’m thinking Metacrawler will be my new go-to search engine.

Yes, and they’ve also added a very annoying “People” list on the right side of the page.  I’m with pgm3…Google has just been “fired” as my browser for continuing to add features that I not only do not want, but also do not need…and not letting me disable these features.

If I really concentrate, I can read the grey words on black background, but it is very stressful.  The two colors, black background and grey letters, react in the brain in ways totally different from black on white. I have changed them back to black on white for Firefox, and
quite using Safari completely. 
It is a total disaster, absolutely despicable, for Google to have done this. For people with poor or failing eyesight, it makes the toolbar useless. Because of the impact on visually handicapped users, and even those without poor vision, the question is only how long will it be before Google is sued. 

Google’s creedo used to be “Do No Harm”, and each employee was instructed to think of this expression when he/she was writing code for new software. Google has continually gone against their own creedo by introducing unwanted changes to their home search page, and then making these changes difficult, or impossible, to remove.

Don’t be a hypocrite, Google, Live up to your own professed ethic! Listen to what people want and quit trying to force us to accept things that we don’t like. The resistance that you excite in your users will lead to a loss of market share, as users look for software that better suits their needs, and their desire to not have things that they are not hungry for crammed down their throats by what is becoming an uncaring, top-heavy corporation bent on forgetting the lessons of similar corporate empires vanished in the sands of time after forgetting that they cannot hold power without the will of the people behind them!

The black bar stinks!! Why can’t your programmers/developers quit screwing around with your startup page? Don’t they have something useful to do?

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google’s new design lacks usability across multiple platforms. try doing an image search on your mobile. good luck as 18 pages try to load before you can do anything! google used to be a refuge from all the cluttered and over designed web pages out there. a nice clean palette with a solid brand identity. what they have now looks like some junk made from a wordpress template!

I’d rather rip that stupid meebo bar off sites that use it.  Like this one.

So the screen readers are the problem then ????

This black bar is really getting up people’s noses. I won’t say where I would like to put it…

Google: get rid of the black bar. It is a mistake. Perhaps time to use a different search engine

I have found a way to remove the black bar and get the search results back in the center of the screen. It’s easier than the grease monkey way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhYp1nytVQ

Google, sweetheart, are you listening?  I too agree with the overwhelming opinion.  And am going to start to suspect that you are two timing me somehow — that you have your reasons … I wonder if its me you care about.   I am not dumb you know — we are not stupid.  We just … love you.  ..want to love you.  …..loved? not yet.  but give me back my start page, give me back my objective search results, and stop apologizing every time i get the least bit creative with my browser configuration.  you are not really fooling anyone.  you have changed, something changed.  i feel like you are shutting me out, like i can’t communicate, like all i am seeing is myself reflected.  i know, you see, that you are not really apologizing.  what you are doing is — not  giving me what you know i want.  sometimes i feel, like its just because i want it.  and i know you have it.  and its quiet out.  

but all i get issometimes — i know — you go through a lot to make me want it first, create the need, fill it so perfectly. hand in glove. and i will be thinking some sugary fantasy shot on celluloid through vaseline smears, larger than life. there i am, there you are, and i want no other browser than you.  then — yoink! – like you didn’t even notice — someone appreciated that.  appreciated you.  I used to think search results were objective, scientific.  these keywords get these many hits, of these types, in this order.  i was depending on that 1-800-info service.  .I will no doubt have become dependent upon  Voice. By the time you yank it.  
google, i love you. don’t be evil.- a female faust

http://tinyurl.com/b-good-google  – i tried to post it, it wouldn’t, despite disqus offering the option.  song was on while i was commenting — and it seemed perfect.  us loyal who may leave are the clowns….  and dude with the cat — is in the picture – 

http://torrentfreak.com/

We watched the video on youtube. Be aware that “ryan” is not explaining how to get back. He is just showing “his” white version of the google bar. In the video description there is a link to his webpage, where you have to enter your email address so that he can contact you and send a “step by step tutorial”… wtf & WOT!

waste of time

If google knew how important design can be :)

..went over to Bing as my default opening page..the world did’nt stop :D , not saying that it’s a better search engine or that it’s “cleaner” from design, it’s not.
just think it’s kinda sad that google does not seem to care about their users, so until they come to their senses i”ll try to get a long without them :D
nice weekend everyone!

Really! google be serious dont need that black bar, didnt request for it in the first place!

Not true that if you use IE you don’t get the black bar. I am trying desperately to get rid of it. I heard, though, that those with a google or gmail account see the black bar. Anyone out there without a google account that does not see the black bar?????

have already changed homepage to http://uk.altavista.com
..and there I shall stay!

have already changed homepage to http://uk.altavista.com
..and there I shall stay!

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all of this inspired a blogpost — (thank you geekosystem!!) — all y’all invited, & your comments as well!!

http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-i-love-you-but.html

1ofmany are the search parameters as robust in your opinion?

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How to get rid of Google black bar in Internet Explorer on Windows
For well accustomed to CSS it’s easy, but for all common people may be this step-by-step will be helpful.
1. Download this file http://www.mediafire.com/?xn756c5662bwv29
2. In Internet Explorer menu open Tools / Internet Options. In General Tab click Accessibility button.
3. Check checkbox “Format document using my stylesheet”.
4. Click “Browse” button right to the stylesheet field, find and select the file that you donwloaded in step 1.
5. Click Ok two times.
That must be it.I Checked it works in two different regions, so hope will work elsewhere.
For the case the link in step 1 is expired or doesn’t work (it’s some free file-sharing service, so you can expect anything) do the following:
1. Open notepad (if you don’t know what’s notepad, click Start button, type word notepad and press Enter)
2. Copy-paste to the notepad the CSS text that is in the end of this message (starting after line /* google black bar hide */).
3. Save file with the name google-black-bar-hide.css anywhere on your pc
4. In Internet Explorer menu open Tools / Internet Options. In General Tab click Accessibility button.
5. Check checkbox “Format document using my stylesheet”.
6. Click “Browse” button right to the stylesheet field, find and select the file that you saved in step 3.
7. Click Ok two times.

/* google black bar hide */
#mngb *, /* top menu */#gbx4, #gbx3, #gbz .gbzt, #gbz .gbgt /* on search video page */ {  background: none !important;  color: #00c !important;  border: none !important;  text-decoration: underline !important; }#gbg .gbgt /* sign in link on all but homepage */ {  color: #00c !important;  background: none !important;  text-decoration: underline !important; }.gbt .gbzt.gbz0l.gbp1, /* empty first element in top left menu */#gbgs5 {  display: none !important; }.ctr-p div /* bottom left menu */ {  margin-left: 0 !important; }.ctr-p #cp-sol /* bottom right menu */ {  margin-right: 0 !important; }

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A stylish solution – thank you!

google.se has a grey bar. Looks like every other is black.

fhis suuucks, but as  usual we all get used to crappy shit

remember yahoo adds? all pissed on them initially now they;re accepted…we/kk see about this black shit ribon

If you’re a Safari or Chrome user, you can just install this Safari Extension: http://www.cornellcampbell.com/extensions/posts/8/googlebar/

I avoid it by not using Google for searching at all any more. I use, and prefer Startpace, at startpage.com. Seems just as good, and respects your privacy too. Win win……

Google’s black navigation bar seems silly to me.Next thing they will be going for a Google black search like Blackl http:www.blackl.com/black-google.html . If I am not using a black Google I want a white one with a white bar.

Think that this is something they will end up going back on. Google has been successfull because of the simple layout. Why copy what other have tried and doesn’t work?

Google is a business and has every right to do whatever they damn well please. I don’t like it either, but you come off as a moron.

Wow, thanks, black bar no more!!

If everyone  boycotts google for 1 day a week & uses another browser, until they put it back how we want it, we may see some action. we are the consumer after all.  NOTE TO GOOGLE; if just half of the people using google, do as i suggest, & boycott your browser for 1 day a week, that’s alot of people…. but what you must also bear in mind, is that,…what if on trying another browser, half again, or even a quarter of your users discover that they prefer this other browser to google, and choose not to return to you?…… This could run into hundreds of thousands of people parting company with you, mainly because you are forcing this awful (imo) black bar onto us, with no option to remove/change or hide. I love google (and have used google from as long as i’ve had a pc), & i loathe change, but the black bar is really irritating…. (and so say all of us!!!!) please change it.

no doubt

Just use http://www.google.com/pda 

Back to basics :o)

Bless you GEEKOSYSTEM and STYLISH. I can see again and work…

Devon

Not only is the white lettering on black unreadable and eye straining  but now I find I can’t see the area to put in the search items or find the buttons to press to get things rolling due to the color changes.  :(
Google hates people with vision problems.
Google employees are so young they don’t remember that the entire computer world DITCHED white text on black for monitor  use a long long time ago…
And what is the point of me having a nice monitor if only the left half of a page is being used?
Not everyone is using  a teeny tiny phone screen to do work on!

Well, it now seems it was all a plot from Google to make you switch from IE to Chrome. I have both installed on my PC (I like IE more). Now Google has made a simple script available to remove the terrible back bar from their home page assuming you use Chrome. For IE it does not work. for the fix see here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgjccaneipbjkihbbhiekcdepgpehfpn
Pretty devious but it was to be expected. “You want to use our search engine? Then you have to use our browser”.

You’re a dumb ass. That Chrome Extension was built by a user, not by google. There are already dozens of similar extensions for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox — All made by USERS not Google itself.

not hide, we need to chage the color.

Look, Google is not a browser. Google Chrome is a browser… internet explorer is a browser… Firefox is a browser. GOOGLE IS A SEARCH ENGINE.

And yet, where is the IE fix?  User-created fixes or not, Google has clearly made a change that discourages the use of IE… intentionally or otherwise.

I sure hope Google engineers are working hard on this fix. I too not only dislike the black bar but the white letters on a black background cause my eyes to go crazy. That is why there MUST be an option. Not everyone sees the same! Google, please fix this soon. 

Thank you from a loyal user.

Use Bing or Yahoo search ;-)

Why a black Google bar? I like Google because it’s simple. This just looks like visual pollution. If I want a black Google I can use http://www.blackl.com/black-google.html , if I want lots of links I go to http://www.yahoo.com. Google.com is great because it’s simple…

Why a black Google bar? I like Google because it’s simple. This just looks like visual pollution. If I want a black Google I can use http://www.blackl.com/black-google.html , if I want lots of links I go to http://www.yahoo.com. Google.com is great because it’s simple…

Whatever!

My solution is best: On my next computer there will be no Google and no Youtube. I wish I could have no Java too; ‘we’ begged people not to use Java…WHY?!

note — the link above works now — unless you are using ie – http://tinyurl.com/googleiloveyouBUT.  and have i myself removed the black bar?  and have i stoppedwith the less than fully satisfying love affair with evi– with google?  who else has such search parameters?  but recently, that is, when the SHTF in London, well, lets just say i experienced some anomalies.  and this no objective search thing has just GOT to go….

China has a thriving business and has every right to do whatever they damn well please. I don’t like it either, but you come off as a moron. :)

They’ll do what keeps ‘them’ happy. recently I was finally forced to link my youtube with Gmail. Hate it. Why cant they give options , options are nice and friendly. I know why, now all the ads that I see on youtube are directed at my sex and age.
Whist we all depend and love the services of google and the like it does seem that they control us more and more….I’m still holding out on my mobile number for various services, but for how much longer……Brave new world………

Wrong-I have Internet Explorer and never had this damn black bar until Halloween.  I clicked onto Google’s Halloween video and have had this THING ever since and am now attempting to get rid of it.. Won’t quit until I accomplish this….Have a great day….

How do you change the colour of the black CHAT window bar?

This just changes it to white, does not remove it. My vision-impaired partner has to tab past each link every time she users her screen reader. We want it GONE.

You are talking about the old Google.   With the new Google, this kind of arrogance is exactly what I’d expect.

And you couldn’t provide the remedy here?