Google Calendar Toggle/Hide Sidebar and Search (Chrome, Greasemonkey)
Introduction
There are some Firefox Add-ons that do the same thing, but they’re not compatible with Firefox 3.6 and Greasemonkey. This script also will work in Google Chrome (which is pretty sweet all over). It’s quite simple how it works. When the page loads you’ll now find a “Tighten” checkbox which will allow you to toggle the normal display with the condensed display. This is helpful if you need to do a search, toggle on/off calendars you have, or view your mini-calendar.
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Change Log
May 28, 2010
- The new version of Google Calendar changed their DOM causing the script to stop working. This is now fixed.
- Added support for https instead of just http.
March 2, 2010
- The script was publicly released (in very very beta) with support for Chrome and Firefox’s Greasemonkey.
January 20th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Howdy! Google is about to push us all to the new calendar design, and tightening no longer works, much to my dismay. Any thought on an update to your most useful script?
Many thanks, and thanks for developing this in the first place!
Tom Moore
January 26th, 2012 at 5:07 am
Hello Tom,
Thank you for letting me know. I will make sure to add this to my list of scripts to update, but sadly a lot of people do not use this one. Although I hope to eventually get to it, I’m not sure how quickly that will be. I will let you know when I make headway on it.
Thank you,
Daniel Slaughter
July 1st, 2011 at 2:55 am
Hej,
looks nice but it does not work with the new Google Design.
April 5th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Hi, would it be possible to add a keyboard shortcut for this? Something like u or f to be consistent with google reader?
April 5th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Hey Rob,
That’s a great idea! I’ll add it to the list of suggestions I have for the Google Calender Tighten script and I’ll let you know when it’s updated.
Thank you,
Daniel Slaughter
January 1st, 2011 at 9:29 am
I have downloaded your toggle and like the way it gets rid of the sidebar. When I change from one calendar screen to another, or when I toggle on the closed sidebar, the toggle option disappears. When I close the calendar and reopen, it appears again.
Any suggestions.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:30 am
Hello Randy,
This is a bug someone else reported recently. I’ll look into why this is happening within the next week or so and correct the issue.
Thank you very much for reporting this,
Daniel Slaughter
September 15th, 2010 at 10:20 am
The script is not working on recent releases of Chrome
September 17th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Hello Richard, I am using both the developer version and most recent stable release if chrome and it seems to be working correctly. What version number are you using and what operating system? At what point is the script not working? Does it at least load some text into the header? Do you have any order user script or scripts which alter gmail? What Google labs features do you have enabled? Thanks in advance!