Ok, so the status bar is getting really cluttered in my Firefox. The Google notebook extension is a big space hog. I really don’t need to have “Open notebook…” sitting there all the time – if I need it, I know where it is. So here’s a little patch that takes care of all that ‘noise’. Apply it in your Profiles/%PROFILENAME%/extensions/[email protected]/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US directory.

--- google-gnotes.dtd.bak       2006-12-07 10:50:36.000000000 -0600
+++ google-gnotes.dtd   2006-12-07 10:54:04.000000000 -0600
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
<!ENTITY gnotes.noteThis "Note this (Google Notebook)"><!-- The label for the button that pops open a notebook window -->
-<!ENTITY gnotes.openNotebook "Open Notebook">
+<!ENTITY gnotes.openNotebook "">

<!-- When Alt-[this key] is pressed, the notebook is opened.
It *should* correspond to the first letter in "Notebook,"
--- google-gnotes.properties.bak        2006-12-07 10:50:36.000000000 -0600
+++ google-gnotes.properties    2006-12-07 10:51:13.000000000 -0600
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
gnotes.description=Allows notetaking while browsing

## @loc The label on the button that makes the notebook box pop up.
-gnotes.openNotebook=Open Notebook
+gnotes.openNotebook=

## @loc The label on the button when the pop-up box it opens is in the process of loading.
-gnotes.loadingNotebook=Loading...
+gnotes.loadingNotebook=

## @loc The label on the button that closes the notebook pop-up box.
-gnotes.closeNotebook=Close Notebook
+gnotes.closeNotebook=

## @loc The message when the connection to the Notebook server fails, and the application cannot proceed.
gnotes.serverDown=Cannot reach server

Enjoy – I surely am…