[PLUG-TALK] Removing the iGoogle tab
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at kl-ic.com
Thu Jan 20 02:38:08 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> > About 18 months ago, Google in their infinite wisdom decided to
> > add a tab to the side of the iGoogle page. On small displays,
> > such as netbooks and handheld browsers, this significantly narrows
> > the room available for usable applets, and causes some to display
> > poorly. It is not a problem on my 2048px wide laptop screen, but
> > it is annoying as hell on my wife's 1024px wide screen.
> >
> > Fortunately, there is a cure, at least for firefox:
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/igoogle-tab-remover/
> >
> > I just installed it, so I may later learn of some defect. For now,
> > it gets rid of the damned side tab, turning it into a horizontal
> > strip with a dropdown across the top. Which you can disable from
> > the dropdown itself. Yay! More screenspace! Less filling!
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:57:20PM -0800, Michael Moore wrote:
> FYI, the same thing exists for Chrome/Chromium:
> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dlibebadhejgpjggjfijjgnomljihpeb
>
> Don't know if it works, though - haven't used it. The tab doesn't
> bother me. I can understand it being an annoyance on a small screen.
According to the comments on that page, Google changed Chrome and
the extension (a port of the firefox addon) doesn't work anymore.
That's not just annoying, that's positively Micro$oftish. Makes
you want to take a sawzall to the monitor of the clown that wrote
this, or the manager that forced them to, slicing off the leftmost
100 pixels or so.
But "we will force you to do it our way" isn't new:
http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html
Keith
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