GMail toggle searchbar area

By Gurjeet Singh Last update Nov 13, 2009 — Installed 5,024 times. Daily Installs: 12, 13, 14, 10, 11, 14, 9, 11, 9, 11, 6, 23, 15, 16, 20, 5, 10, 15, 9, 11, 11, 9, 9, 9, 19, 20, 24, 10, 15, 14, 7, 16
Script Summary:
Use this GreaseMonkey script to reclaim the hefty area that the GMail's searchbar and Logo area take up.
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This script hides that whole searchbar area by default, and provides a 'Toggle Search' link in the header to show/hide the searchbar area.

This script works for plain GMail as well as Google Apps hosted corporate Gmail too.

Another nice feature is that, that when showing the search-box, the focus is automatically given to the search box, so you can simply start typing your search query.

A video of the script in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGhEa-YVmmo

This script has been adapted from the fine script at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43528 ; but it has gone through 5 revisions and quite extensive research to improve the functioning.