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iGoogle Sidebar Collapse Removes The New iGoogle Sidebar

Firefox with Greasemonkey: The iGoogle Sidebar Collapse Greasemonkey script toggles the visibility of the new iGoogle sidebar with the click of your mouse or with a user-defined keyboard shortcut. We gave you a closer look at the new iGoogle with canvas view yesterday, but many people aren’t happy with it. You main complaint: The new sidebar eats up a substantial chunk of screen real estate. iGoogle Sidebar Collapse reclaims that stolen space, collapsing and expanding the sidebar at your will. Thanks Nicholas!


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  • Gloria

    if it’s not broken, don’t fix it! These changes are so stupid. the fetures I used most are gone and now I have twice the fetures I could care less about. I would like to open the google home page and see how many email messages I have without the person next to me at work seeing a preview of my somtimes very personal notes from friends. I may soon stop usgling google all together if these changes are not corrected.

  • stu

    All you asking how to get rid of the description text, its in the options somewhere. I forget where since my iGoogle keeps reverting to Classic…

  • JohnB

    For Firefox users, another option is to use the “Stylish” extension and the following userstyle. It will hide the dreaded iGoogle left sidebar *altogether*:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

    http://userstyles.org/styles/11365

    best,
    JohnB

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