User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-3401602-20141203214114/@comment-452-20141203220959

I did hide the old bar in my global CSS - luckily the user/notification menus were not within the old bar, so completely hiding it wasn't a problem.

With the new one, I have: [search this wikia] [loooooooooong search bar] [user menu]