[aidscholar]

I really don't want a big black bar on top of my gmail.

[DrCatbox]

Make your own web mail?

[martey]

Or use a userscript to override the toolbar's CSS?

[false]

Or even better, use the user stylesheet. This is CSS job after all :)

Chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2393

FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/