Replaces the logo on various Google search engines to that of the logo they had from 2010 to 2013, and also changes the favicon to that of the 2012 one. Dark theme compatible.
Additionally, it has some features to further age the look of your results:
- Square search boxes
- Square favicons in results
- Denser results listing
- Removal of pills row, results gimmicks, and People also searched for
- Redirect automatically to
&udm=14
results pages - Remove URL breadcrumbs in results and make the URL text green
- Google Images
- Google Videos
- Google Scholar
- Google Patents
- Google Books
- Books Ngram Viewer
- Google Maps
- Google Finance
- Google News
- Google Shopping
- Google Travel
- Google Trends
I am open to PRs for help on features and improvements if you would like to help!
- Favicon replacement.
- Favicon replacement based on specific site.
- Allow Old Google to run on TLDs other than .com. (Currently removed functionality)
- Sign, package, and distribute this extension on AMO.
- Google Images support.
- Additional Google search engines support.
- Google Doodle support.
- Google Doodle search page support.
- Refactor.
- Remove
&tbm=isch
for SVG google logo handling as Google has removed this search page. - Rename references to "random row" to "pills"—as Google likes to call them.
- Rename references to green URL fixing to proper paths to say full URL instead of breadcrumbs.
- Replace arrays of query selectors with some documentation of what means what. Keep array of
browser.runtime.getURL
objects for logos instead.
- Remove
- Firefox (obviously)
- Mozilla's
web-ext
tool. (Available on most Linux distributions as theweb-ext
package, or throughnpm install --global web-ext
on Windows and non-supporting Linux distributions)
- Clone the GitHub repo:
git clone https://github.com/toydotgame/old-google.git cd old-google/
- Build the code:
web-ext build
- Install the addon temporarily in Firefox:
- In Firefox, go to
about:debugging
, to This Firefox, then under the Temporary Extensions heading, click Load Temporary Add-on.... - After that, navigate to wherever you cloned the repo, then inside that
old-google/
folder, findweb-ext-artifacts/
, and in that, double-click to openold_google-x.x.zip
.
- In Firefox, go to
This way of installing the extension will cause it to be removed after you close the browser window.
Alternatively, you can just load the manifest.json
file into about:debugging
to achieve the same functionality.