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> I just wish it weren't fixed.

I thought the article mentioned this, but there's a user preference to turn that off ("Disable stickyness").

http://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences/

Reduce usable screen space by 15 percent all the item = instant disable. If they didn't give that option, would have blocked the whole bar, not that it currently has much use anyways.

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