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Hide Personalized Google Search Box v2

Hides the search box on personalized Google homepages (for those who use the Google toolbar and don't need it wasting their screen space). Adds a link at the top to reshow it.

Based pretty closely on Michel Felix's script by the same name, only this one actually works ;-). To quote his description, "Hides the search box on personalized Google homepages (for those who use the Google toolbar and don't need it wasting their screen space). Adds a link at the top to reshow it."






Jan 30, 2008
googatrix Scriptwright

Anyone using this who wishes to get their tabs back, the fix is pretty simple: On line 35 change container = container.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode; to this container = container.parentNode.parentNode; (i.e. remove one occurrence of parentNode).

 
Jan 29, 2008
googatrix Scriptwright

Are there plans to change the script to show the tabs? As it is, the name is a little misleading.

 
Jun 25, 2007
Roger Hart User

It works, yes, but I like to show off the beach theme and tabs when I'm visiting people. What I really want is to be able to get rid of the search box and leave the rest in place.

 
Jun 3, 2007
Amanda French User

Wait, I spoke too soon. It ate my tabs.

 
Jun 3, 2007
Amanda French User

Brilliant. Hello, screen real estate! It seems to break find-as-you-type for me too, though.

 
Mar 24, 2007
Alex 1 User

nice - it make my the new ig theme look a little better

 
Jul 22, 2006
Alex 3 User

Breaks find-as-you-type on the page. (Atleast for me...)

 
Jul 18, 2006
kmccormi User

on digg.com today there was a post regarding opening Google homepages in the sidebar, which is pretty handy. But your greasemonkey script only works when the site is opened in the main window, not in the sidebar. Why?

 
Feb 18, 2006
Randall Wald Script's author

The "reshow search" link is currently not working; I'll look at it later, but if this was a selling point for you, keep that in mind.

 
Feb 3, 2006
Randall Wald Script's author

OK, it's been modified to automatically work on with TLDs other than .com.

 
Jan 18, 2006
Kris 1 User

Doesn't work 'out of the box' if you're using a localised version of google (co.uk, .fr etc), need to change the 'com' to '*'.

 
Jan 11, 2006
mar 1 Scriptwright

Work's perfectly, unlike v1. Even works when using site specific stylesheets to customize the page :)

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