I want to remove that big blue stripe near the top of the screen

The stripe that showed up yesterday that says: "Click Here To Start Sharing on Google"

I have the same problem, but I see it whenever I go to the Google home page. The blue stripe (at least the one I'm seeing) appears on the web page itself, and it's not part of any of the Firefox toolbars.
I'm using Firefox 8, and hiding the Menu bar doesn't do anything to the "blue stripe" on Google. I can't see that an add-on is going to fix this either. I think it's just Google being it's recently annoying self.
Maybe I misunderstood what the original poster was asking. Is there Another annoying blue stripe out there?! (I wouldn't be surprised if there was... Firefox made some bad decisions with v.8, it's Very annoying.)
p.s. I'm not happy At All with Firefox 8. Such a disappointment... What were they thinking??

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