In reply to Torsten.

Thanks for the suggestion… I actually just rolled out version 1.5.0 which accomplishes the same goal in a slightly different way, by stripping all text before the span tag that contains the user's display name. (Of course, this doesn't address languages where the greeting might come after the name, so your suggestion might be better.)

I have a feeling though that there's a world of difference between wanting to remove the greeting in general, vs. specifically wanting to remove the word "Howdy" from the U.S. English version. :D