Comments on: Getting rid of Google’s annoying “background image”

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:13:14 +0000

Great comments guys, thanks

@Mrs0ft – that link does work, but I’d want the default homepage I go to looking like that, rather than having to set it as a bookmark / homepage.

@floxter – brilliant, that’s even better

By: floxter

floxter — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:18:03 +0000

Someone has just posted a nice “Classic Google” style at userstyles.org – It also removes that annoying backdrop shadow, and brings the good old Google logo back to life:


@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url("http://www.google.co.uk/"), url("http://google.com")

{
/* kill the background */

img#fpdi

{

    display: none !important;

}
/* set the logo back to default */

div#logo

{

    background-image: url("http://www.google.com/images/logo.png") !important;

}
/* get rid of the drop shadow on text */

#fctr, #fctr a, .sblc a, #cpFooter a, #cpf a, #prm a, #addlang, #addlang a, #fctr p

{

    color: #333333 !important;

    text-shadow: none !important;

}
/* get rid of the change/remove background link */

a#cpNavLink

{

    display: none;

}
}

You can download it at http://userstyles.org/styles/31520

By: Mrs0ft

Mrs0ft — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:04:13 +0000

Why not use http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all ?

By: floxter

floxter — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:59:12 +0000

Hi Alex,

Great blog post! I found it by typing “annoying google background image” into google

You could also paste your css directly into a userstyle via a great Firefox addon named “Stylish”. It lets you switch between style-mods and turn them on and off easily …

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108/

And best of all – there is a community of style-modders out there with lots of alternative styles for the google search page.

http://userstyles.org

So no need to give up privacy for freedom of style