>>>The banner area is actually 8 pixels less in height as before. During the transition phase minor layout adjustments, a few more pixels in height in the entire working area was added.
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>>The text "technical support, ..." is kind of lost in the gray-on-gray, between the "Developers Community" and the row with links. Perhaps moving that to the right, wrapping it into three rows (breaks after the comma and before ampersand) and then moving the links bar to be about 8px below the "Extreme".
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>>OTOH I'd expect Tracy to have a larger monitor :).
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>Widescreen 17" laptop so normally things are pretty easy to see :) However, there is not a lot of height...
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>It would be fine if we could collapse the banner....

I keep the browser on my right monitor, so there's lots of vertical space. Only 1200 horizontally, though, but with the latest tweaks I finally got rid of the horizontal scrollbar when reading/writing here.