Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the Yahoo Search Bar at the top of my.yahoo page? I really need the space that it takes up. :dubious:
Are you talking about a toolbar in your browser, or the big search box that’s alongside the Yahoo logo on the page?
If the former, uninstall it.
If the latter… Well, it’s part of the web page you’re visiting - you might be able to hide it with a browser extension such as AdBlock or GreaseMonkey.
It is a bar at the top of my browser page that takes up 1/2 inch across the whole top of the page. I don’t use yahoo search anyway, so why should I have it. They are kind of forcing it on me. I use chrome and have a search tab for Google that I use.
I just double checked it and it is about 1 inch top to bottom.
In Chrome, go to Settings (from the three-line menu tab at the top right), click on “Extensions”, and unselect the checkbox next to the Yahoo! toolbar (and delete it using the trash icon if you want).
If you’re running Windows, have you tried Add/Remove Programs, as suggested by Mangetout?
You installed it at some point, no one forced it on you. 
Go to tools->extensions and deactivate or uninstall it.
I don’t think you understand what he’s talking about.
Go to http://finance.yahoo.com/ or
http://weather.yahoo.com/ or
http://answers.yahoo.com/
Then scroll down on the page. Look at that one inch bar with the search box that remains stationery at the top of the page as the rest of the page scrolls.
They have contaminated every page that is remotely useful with that thing. It’s especially horrible with the latest yahoo mail that they forced everyone to migrate to. There is practically no room left for actually reading mail. I guess there is no other way they can get anyone to use their useless search function.
Turn off JavaScript?
Sorry, but Settings, Extensions does not include a Yahoo! toolbar.
You are correct, that’s something different. It’s also not a toolbar or an extension, it’s simply part of the Yahoo page and there’s not much you can do about it unless Yahoo gives you a way to turn it off. And I don’t think they do.
I can sympathize with you. That goddamned Yahoo is every bit as bad as a virus. It had infected my Firefox browser so badly that the only way I could get rid of it was to completely remove Firefox, and install Goggle Chrome as a browser.
I won’t let anything remotely connected with Yahoo get near my computer.
I believe that it is part of the yahoo page and cannot be turned off. At least I have tried everything that I know how to do. So be it. I will have to live with the stupid search bar I suppose. Yuk!!!
Think of it as a disincentive to using Yahoo’s pages.
Well the first response has the answer: GreaseMonkey is a browser plug-in you can use to alter the appearance of websites.
So you can install that and find/create a rule to hide the search bar.
But I think the better solution is to stop using Yahoo if at all possible. Companies with bad products shouldn’t have customers.
In Firefox, install the extension Nuke Anything Enhanced. Then, when the toolbar shows up, right click on a blank area of it and select “Remove this object” from the drop down menu.
I find this extension useful for removing all sorts of annoying shit on web pages. It actually works for unenhanced things too, like particular graphics or even blocks of text (although I have never found the latter facility actually useful).
I tried this link at work on Chrome, and even with JavaScript off, the site managed to keep the toolbar in place as I scrolled. I know JavaScript was off, because the JavaScript elements didn’t work. I tried it just now, at home on Firefox, and it’s the same. But on Chromium, there’s no non-scrolling toolbar, whether JavaScript is on or off.
Not sure how that works… (ETA: Especially the toolbar staying put with JavaScript disabled part.)
I finally figured out how to get rid of the my.yahoo search bar. I just changed from the USA version to the Colombian version “co.my.yahoo.com” and wallaa, it is gone. there is a search at the top of my page, but it scrolls up when I scroll everything up.
So, I guess it is alright because I live in Colombia and can read anything that they put in the Colombian version. 
It’s a sad and not at all pleasant work-around, but for temporary relief of stuff you don’t want to see on a web page, you can resize your window to be bigger than the screen.
This involves using the “restore down” button at the top right (between minimize and close if you have a window maximized) and then the simplest way is to use the keyboard shortcuts to resize the window. Hit Alt+spacebar to access the control menu, then hit S to select Size.
Next press the right arrow followed by the down arrow to get the size control moved to the bottom-right corner, and now you can use the right and down arrows to resize the window by dragging the bottom-right corner. When you’re happy with that, hit Enter.
Next press Alt+spacebar again, then S, then the left arrow followed by the up arrow to get the size control moved to the top-left corner, and now you can use the left and up arrows to resize the window by dragging the top-left corner. Keep going up with the up arrow until the offending thing is off the screen. When you’re happy with that, hit Enter.
Just want everyone to know that the Colombian page for my.yahoo.com works great and I am quite happy with it. Seems to function better than the English version. So, many thanks to all who tried to solve my problem.