GMail toggle searchbar area

By Gurjeet Singh Last update Nov 13, 2009 — Installed 4,020 times. Daily Installs: 20, 10, 17, 112, 29, 20, 17, 12, 13, 19, 10, 14, 18, 10, 11, 12, 17, 6, 26, 29, 23, 29, 25, 30, 24, 31, 22, 21, 34, 27, 31, 22
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.