Getting back the "old" Google homepage

Concerned User · 12. Dec 2011, 06:05 AM

Not exactly a huge fan of Google Instant or the newly designed page...

Perhaps you might even call me old fashioned.

Switching your browser user agent to an older browser brings back the old Google page. For example: I changed the user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.9.0" - That's Firefox 1.9.0 and voila! I was able to switch back to the old page (Google search, news and images).

Probably, most of you would have meddled around with these settings. To make things even easier, this Firefox addon (UAControl) makes it easier to control what user agent you would like to send for different sites

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ol/?src=search

Now whenever I open Google, it defaults to the "old" look.

Just for the fun of it, I blocked the user agent and went to facebook and got this "funny" message

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J_L · 12. Dec 2011, 06:17 AM

I don't see it. What's the URL?

Looks like a mobile version to me.

Concerned User · 12. Dec 2011, 09:49 AM

@ JL: I've set my home page to "http://www.google.com/ncr" rather than "google.co.in" or whatever your local google page would be.

Should have mentioned that earlier

Ritho · 13. Dec 2011, 02:10 AM

I ran across the new design too when I was using a VPN. They must be rolling it out to just certain regions.

J_L · 14. Dec 2011, 12:50 AM

Found that occurring on Internet Explorer 9, but not the latest Firefox; which is weird.

12. Dec 2011, 06:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
Concerned User Editor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: இந்தியா, सिन्धु, India Posts: 324	Getting back the "old" Google homepage Not exactly a huge fan of Google Instant or the newly designed page... Perhaps you might even call me old fashioned. Switching your browser user agent to an older browser brings back the old Google page. For example: I changed the user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.9.0" - That's Firefox 1.9.0 and voila! I was able to switch back to the old page (Google search, news and images). Probably, most of you would have meddled around with these settings. To make things even easier, this Firefox addon (UAControl) makes it easier to control what user agent you would like to send for different sites https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ol/?src=search Now whenever I open Google, it defaults to the "old" look. Just for the fun of it, I blocked the user agent and went to facebook and got this "funny" message:

13. Dec 2011, 02:10 AM	#4 (permalink)
Ritho Foundation Editor Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 1,391	I ran across the new design too when I was using a VPN. They must be rolling it out to just certain regions. __________________ The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.

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12. Dec 2011, 06:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
J_L Co-Author, Best Free Security List Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,475	I don't see it. What's the URL? Looks like a mobile version to me.

12. Dec 2011, 09:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
Concerned User Editor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: இந்தியா, सिन्धु, India Posts: 324	@ JL: I've set my home page to "http://www.google.com/ncr" rather than "google.co.in" or whatever your local google page would be. Should have mentioned that earlier

14. Dec 2011, 12:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
J_L Co-Author, Best Free Security List Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,475	Found that occurring on Internet Explorer 9, but not the latest Firefox; which is weird.