Moz Tool Bar Annoyance - How do I make the green keyword difficulty box go away?

[JenKeller]

A highly annoying light green keyword difficulty box just started showing up to the right of the search box. How do I make this go away?

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[RyanPurkey]

Hi Jen. If you click the Moz "M" to turn off the tool bar it will go away. Click it on if you want it and other features to display again. Cheers!

[JenKeller]

Thank you, Ryan. But, that does not make it go away permanently. Every time I enter a query, it reappears. I'm a Pro member since the days of Linkscape and I am usually signed in. This is so highly annoying, especially since I have to screen grab a lot. I have been using the Moz Tool Bar since inception and this just started happening. Was there a new release?  At this point, I am going to uninstall the extension and use OSE directly. If someone knows how to disable this permanently, please advise.

[RyanPurkey]

Hmm. Could be a bug because for me it stays off while using Chrome as a browser.  Can you share your browser and OS specs? Staff should be able to better trouble shoot after that.  Cheers!

[SanjidaKazi]

Hi Jen,

Do you have the bar in "DA mode?"

Click it once to put the bar into DA mode which is "half off" or click it again to disable it.

If you don't get those different modes when clicking the "M" button I would uninstall and reinstall the chrome ext.

[JenKeller]

Thanks Ryan. Using Chrome and Apple OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)

[JenKeller]

Thanks, Jamie. So uninstalling and re-installing did the trick. Thank you. There is now a whole "new" look. My Mozbar used to provide data on black backgrounds. This is now light grey - and the three modes you describe now work. I have to tell you, I really long for the "old Moz days" when the tools were straightforward and simple. They accomplished very specific tasks. So you used a series of them independently, but they were elegant in their simplicity.  Nowadays, Moz tools are so over-designed to try to "do" everything for you all at once. Why we need 3 different modes for a toolbar is beyond me. Sigh. If I could have the old Linkscape interface back, I would take it in a minute. I would also take back the old Rank Tracker. I would change OSE back so you can see the full URLs of your backlinks on screen without having to download all the time. Longing for the good ole days. #rantover

[RyanPurkey]

Glad the reinstall got it working for you.   There's always the API route too for more custom needs. I'm a long time user as well but can get why they alter tools to display more of their toolset. It's likely a tested value-add for many and newer subscribers. Cheers!