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I just can't get past the black bar. After years of it being white, black just feels imposing.

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Speaking of which... am I crazy or is there a new black bar at the top of HN too?

(edit: removed second sentence after finding out actual reason)

I think it is because Robert Morris passed away recently.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469

Oh. :(

Thanks for mentioning this. I thought it was a Google joke.

Oh, I did too. Now I feel insensitive :(

I thought the same thing. Now I feel a bit bad. :(

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feoeglchiaabaccccn...

Firefox (with the Stylish extension): http://userstyles.org/styles/49963/google-toolbar-whitener

Also, if you use large text, the text "Gmail Calendar Documents," etc, overruns the bottom of the black bar. I know there is a way to make a bar that does not have that problem because the orange bar on HN does not have that problem.

Sometimes I like to browse without putting on my eyeglasses, by making the text large.

This is my main concern. The vast majority of the time, I'm browsing with text enlarged (without scaling up the rest of the site/images/css). I just hope it doesn't end up being a horrible case of DIVs overlapping, making things unreadable.

That new "dense" GMail theme has the bar's opacity set to ~40% and is much less jarring. I think the black bar wouldn't be an issue if the rest of the pages weren't so low contrast now.

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