iboats_tim this is a new wrinkle, I use my droid exclusively for the net and something has chabged in the last few days.
The floating bar 'used' to be a problem in landscape because it was TOO big and blocked out most of the screen and was fixed at the top of the screen.
So smaller is better, but now instead of blocking the top of the screen, its floating and blocking the middle......
Using the 'chrome' lite that Samsung choose as a default browser.