Right-click at the top, in the blank portion, next to your tabs and un-check the "Menu Bar". You can still access your Menu Bar by pressing the "ALT" key, if and when you need to.

Thanks for the reply but unchecking the menu bar did not remove that fat blue stripe. The annoying blue stripe is almost 1/4 down the screen and sits right above the "Firefox start stripe that contains the logo". It's annoying and I don't like it and i'm not about to click on it and "start sharing on Google". Any more ideas?

Thanks....

Sorry, I didn't realize you are using Firefox 3.6.24. The solution I provided works in Firefox 8. However, I do have one of my older laptops running Firefox 3.6.24 and I don't have the blue bar with the message (just a clean blue bar), but that's probably because I'm using a customized theme (Chromifox Basic).

Maybe you can add this theme (you can always unable or uninstall it later) and it will fix your problem. To install a customized Firefox Theme do the following:

• Go to \Tools\Add-ons;
• Click the link "Browse All Add-ons";
• Click "Themes" (at the Add-ons page);
• Search for "Chromifox Basic" (in the Search box);
• Click on the green button "Add to Firefox";
• Restart your browser.

Hopefully this helps.

Changing the theme did the trick...thanks a lot!

I have the same problem, but I see it whenever I go to the Google home page. The blue stripe (at least the one I'm seeing) appears on the web page itself, and it's not part of any of the Firefox toolbars.

I'm using Firefox 8, and hiding the Menu bar doesn't do anything to the "blue stripe" on Google. I can't see that an add-on is going to fix this either. I think it's just Google being it's recently annoying self.

Maybe I misunderstood what the original poster was asking. Is there Another annoying blue stripe out there?! (I wouldn't be surprised if there was... Firefox made some bad decisions with v.8, it's Very annoying.)

p.s. I'm not happy At All with Firefox 8. Such a disappointment... What were they thinking??

Hi @BetsyR, yes, you are talking about a different blue bar. See this thread on the blue bar you are talking about.

With regards to the new Firefox 8 version, I'm not too impressed with it either. Hoping to see improvements in the next version.

i use linux and firefox 3.6.24. i couldn't find the customized theme Chromifox Basic. is there any other solution to get rid of that really annoying thick blue stripe? thanks, vic

That is bar added by Google.

You can hide that bar with this code in userChrome.css below the default @namespace line.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#gbprw { display:none!important; }

The customization files userChrome.css and userContent.css are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration

You can use the ChromEdit Plus or Stylish extension to have easier access to the customization files.

• ChromEdit Plus: http://webdesigns.ms11.net/chromeditp.html