How can I disable the big red number showing on the Google account bar that comes from Google+ activity?
Whenever there are new notifications from Google+ the box turns red showing a number or count of how many messages/updates are waiting.
I want to disable this. I use mainly Google Chrome and Firefox if an extension or add-on is the way to block this.
You can do it with just some CSS:
http://userstyles.org/styles/50447/hide-google-notifications
I wrote a new userstyle for the latest (March, 2012) version of Google and Gmail's sharing bar.
If you use a localized Google domain, like google.de, you will need to add it to the script.
http://userstyles.org/styles/63098/hide-google-plus-notifications-march-2012?r=1332718041
There is a Chrome plugin called Google+ Notifications Remover. From my first impressions, it works quite well. The bell momentarily appears and then disappears from all the sites I would want it to disappear (google.com, google.com.au, image search, youtube). It would be better if the bell never appeared. The bell does appear in Google+ where you would presumably want it.
Also, if you use Chrome and are seeing the notification in your new tab page, here are a few workarounds.
with Firefox Addon Greasemonkey you can use http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/106622
with Firefox Addon Stylish there is http://userstyles.org/styles/50890/google-plus-notification-hide
Google describes here that you can easily switch notifications off, however, I could not find it...
don't use Google ;)
Hope that helps a bit.
In that top bar where it has the red number, all the way on the right will be a gear. click it, then go to google+ settings. Under google+ notifications, uncheck them all (the boxes).
