Stack Exchange search box animation disabler

se-better-search-animation.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Stack Exchange search box grower 1.0
// @namespace      stackoverflow
// @description    Make Stack Exchange search box grow incrementally
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://*.stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://*.stackexchange.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://stackapps.com/*
// @include        http://askubuntu.com/*
// @include        http://answers.onstartups.com/*
// @author         Alconja
// ==/UserScript==

// http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/101387/please-tone-down-or-remove-the-auto-expansion-of-the-search-box/101412#101412

(function() {
    function GM_wait() {
        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { 
            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); 
        } else { 
            $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); 
        }
    }
    GM_wait();
    function letsJQuery() {
        $(window).load(function() {
            var search = $("#search input").css("max-width", "none");
            var temp = $("<span></span>").css("font-family", search.css("font-family")).hide().insertAfter(search);
            var width = search.width();
            search.unbind().bind("keydown keyup", function() {
                temp.text($(this).val());
                var w = Math.min(Math.max(width, temp.width() + 10), 400);
                $(this).clearQueue().animate({width: w + "px"}, 50);
            });
        });
    }
})();

se-disable-search-animation.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Stack Exchange search box animation disabler 1.0
// @namespace      stackoverflow
// @description    Removes Stack Exchange search box animation shenanigans
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://*.stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://*.stackexchange.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://stackapps.com/*
// @include        http://askubuntu.com/*
// @include        http://answers.onstartups.com/*
// @author         Nick Craver
// ==/UserScript==

function with_jquery(f) {
  var script = document.createElement("script");
  script.type = "text/javascript";
  script.textContent = "(" + f.toString() + ")(jQuery)";
  document.body.appendChild(script);
};

with_jquery(function($) { 
  $(function() {
    $('#search input[name=q]').unbind("focusin focusout").bind({
      blur: function() { this.value = this.value === "" ? "search" : this.value; },
      focus: function() { this.value = this.value === "search" ? "" : this.value; }
    });
  });    
});