Broken on chrome, osx.

Doesn't work with Safari 5.0.4 on OSX.

works after refresh, but not before. safari mac 10.6.

I don't allow cookies from most sites so your solution won't work for me.

What I don't understand is why it doesn't seem to work for a given open page. I can understand needing to read that cookie if I will load the page again in the future, but the bar showed up seconds after I closed it.

chrome 10 mac, The browser has a new user and displays dickbar. When you set (through get var? I didn't look,) the cookie the dickbar will not load. Click back on the browser to get back to hacker news, and chrome reloads a state where dickbar cookie is not set, thus displaying the dickbar yet again. Clicking back once more will go back to HN.