User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-23895839-20141209171403/@comment-25035274-20141209223851

To put it in plainer terms: We are going to have a new Global navigation bar. We are not going back to what we had. What we don't know is if it's going to follow us everywhere around the page or not. And what many of us are hoping is that they'll shrink it down a little bit, and either set it to match the colors of whatever wiki you're on, or at least give you a user-friendly way to alter the color for yourself.

Whether they're going to do that or not remains to be seen. Hope for the best, but don't hold your breath.

Partly because they've still got two more bar set-ups they want to test, and this first one's not even going to be done until January. If you hold your breath, you'll pass out long before next February, March, April, or May; when they finally finish their testing.