Does anyone know if:
1) There's any possible way to get back the old design
and/or
2) there's a great browser extension that lets you get back or otherwise has a more uncluttered look that uses the space better
I tried to slide the nav bar back to the left to narrow it, but no bueno, so i look for and find this extension called Gmail Side Bar Resize or something like that -- it works, but it also seems to steal my email address and sign me up for a newletter and put some widgets in my gmail UI and try to force me to sign up for some account, and generally slows gmail down on top of all that -- so i uninstalled that and reported abuse -- if it wasn't abuse, it sure as hell felt like it.
so i guess, 'yes', i glot slammed over today. it seems i might have to learn to live with a collapsed navbar, as the div that i want to narrow doesn't seem to have a predictable ID, dev would be too painful for me, etc.