Reverts Google Favicons: Address Bar; Tabs; Menu/Toolbar Bookmarks
目前为
Revert to Google's 2013-2015 Favicon (image at bottom)
APPLIES TO: "everything Google" (globally generic Google - "http://" AND "https://"; *.google.* = anything.google.anything), i.e. myaccount.google.com, books.google.com, www.google.com, google.co.uk, google.de, etc
Google's Sept 1, 2015 Favicon Fiasco (ugly, and annoyingly visible new favicon design) inspired this "Greasemonkey" userscript for the Firefox web browser.
It should also work as a "Tampermonkey" userscript for other browsers - Google Chrome, Opera Next, Safari, Dolphin Browser or UC Browser - but that was not tested. I have thoroughly tested this userscript in Firefox - it works perfectly, and it gets automatic updates from Greasy Fork镜像, also. (If anyone tests this as a "Tampermonkey" userscript, I'd appreciate a message informing me of results - I don't use any of the listed browsers). This userscript can be installed in Firefox with 1-click (the green "Install This Script" button at the top of this page) - IF the Firefox userscript manager add-on "Greasemonkey" is first installed.
If you don't have a "Greasemonkey" or "Tampermonkey" userscript manager, they, too, are easy installs...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ (for Firefox, 1-click install)
https://tampermonkey.net/ (select tab near page top for your browser - Chrome, Opera Next, Safari, Dolphin Browser or UC Browser)
On about Sept 1, 2015, Google changed their Favicon. About one day later, a "Greasemonkey" userscript was released by "Anonymous" -
"Revert Google's Favicon 1.0". It was even promoted in a YouTube video - before the poster closed his YouTube account a few days later, and the video was deleted. But it had errors in the "include" URLs - it did NOT work on URLs such as "books.google.com".
Additionally, a "Stylish" userstyle was released ("Google Search Icon Restorer"), but it also has a shortcoming that has not been addressed (as of the time this was written) - it did NOT replace the ugly new Google favicon in the Address Bar (but it does on Browser Tabs). I was upset enough about the Address Bar favicon problem, I didn't take the time to find out if it reverted Bookmark favicons. I gave the style a negative review on UserStyles.org because of the Address Bar favicon non-reversion. I was so inpatient for a fix that I didn't want to wait for the user style's author to address my private message to him about it, and perhaps fix it. His work was otherwise very good, and he brilliantly gives the user of a choice of five Google favicons from which to choose (going all the way back to 1999) - although only 1 of the 5 can be installed (must be chosen prior to installation), and it is locked-in (another comment I made in my review). His animated GIF showing the 5 Google favicons available to choose from with his userstyle is good work, showing the historical progression of 5 Google favicons over the last 16 years. The GIF on the "Google Search Icon Restorer" author's UserStyles.org page (link below) inspired me to create a modified version. Mine adds the years each of 5 Google favicons was used, and a main caption (both in red text), plus the "Historical Animation" caption at the top (animation below - click to enlarge). I also eliminated the inter-logo fades and shortened the 5 logo dwell times to 3 seconds each. (NOTE: You might want to check out his style (link below), especially if you turn "Off" display of Address Bar website favicons - via the Firefox Add-On "Classic Theme Restorer" - which would eliminate any Address Bar favicon distraction. ("Classic Theme Restorer" also allows reverting any or all Firefox "Australis" theme changes that started with FF29).
https://userstyles.org/styles/118366/google-search-icon-restorer
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
The userscript on this page corrects the shortcomings - in both previous "Greasemonkey" userscript and "Stylish" userstyle. The "Greasemonkey" userscript on this page has been thoroughly tested, and works for all Google domains tried (due to the globally generic "include" domains) - AND for all Google favicon locations (see NOTES below).
By the way, both the "Greasemonkey" userscript and "Stylish" userstyle referred to above (that had shortcomings) were released
Sept 2, 2015 - only one day after Google's VERY ugly new favicon was introduced...
I'm not the only person who hates the "new, but not improved" Google graphics - or was immediately inspired to get rid of it.
The Google favicon uglification was TOO MUCH for me! After failing to find a cure with existing mods (Greasemonkey or Stylish) for the Google favicon fiasco, I developed my own fix, only 4 days after their new favicon introduction - that's how incensed I was!
Google also changed their homepage logo the same day - to a very childish monstrosity (there are numerous negative online comments about the logo change, also). Some "Stylish" userstyles already exist to revert to Google's old homepage logo, on the white background:
https://userstyles.org/styles/118315/google-old-logo (Reverts to pre Sept 1, 2015 Google logo on white background)
https://userstyles.org/styles/118348/old-google-logo-circa-2010 (Reverts to pre Sept 1, 2015 Google logo on white background)
For over a year, I've used the "Stylish" userstyle "Black Google by Panos", which beautifies Google's homepage with a shaded, shadowed, and slightly mirrored multi-color Google logo on a black background. Therefore, using Panos' userstyle immunized me from the new Google homepage logo. I've included a screenshot below (click to enlarge) of Google's homepage with "Stylish" userstyle "Black Google by Panos" enabled (center detail only, to enlarge the thumbnail image information).
The NOTES section below has a blurb on "Stylish", with download links for it, as well as the "Black Google by Panos" userstyle.
• Once this userscript is installed - or "enabled" AFTER being "disabled" - already-open Google webpages need to be Refreshed (F5), and all pre-existing Google bookmarks that picked up the newer Google favicon have to be revisited, to complete the favicon reversion.
• ALL Google favicon locations - "URL Bar/Address Bar/Location Bar", "Web Browser Tabs", "Bookmark Menu" and "Bookmark Toolbar" - will be reverted to the Google favicon used before the Sept 2015 change, to the...
white lower-case "g" in a blue square (image below).
• This userscript's "include" URLs have "*" before and after ".google.", so the script works globally on Google sites, i.e. with "books.google.com", "www.google.com", "myaccount.google.com", "google.co.uk", "google.de", etc (*anything.google.*anything) - including, of course, both "http://" and "https://" Google domain protocols. The UserScript metadata block in the code needs only 2 "include" lines - use of both asterisks on each line makes the script "globally generic Google" - and should cover everthing Google...
("http://*.google.*" and "https://*.google.*").
• [I (somewhat) apologize for the verbose character of my posting - but I wanted to encourage newbies to consider jumping into userscripts and userstyles, if they were unfamiliar with the territory. I am evangelizing against an ugly web, and for a user-inspired and user-modified better web. If some of our work informs and inspires the mainstream web designers to get a clue (hear me Google?), our efforts might be rewarded.]
• If you're a fan of Google "doodles" and other special, topical logos - they also get replaced on the homepage if the "Black Google by Panos" userstyle is enabled. However, if you click the "Stylish" logo (by default it gets placed at the lower left of the browser window, in the Add On Bar/Status Bar), and then toggle Panos' style "Off", you immediately see the homepage unmodified.
• "Userstyles" and "Stylish" (userstyle manager) is to CSS as "Userscripts" and "Greasemonkey" (userscript manager) is to JavaScript. (The "Stylish" add-on is a pre-requisite for installation of userstyles for "Stylish"). "Greasemonkey" uses JavaScript userscripts to modify target webpages, while "Stylish" uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) userstyles to modify target webpages. All users should consider using BOTH userscripts and userstyles to modify display of their favorite webpages in their browser - many thousands of free userscripts and userstyles are available to do just that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/ ("Stylish" userstyle manager, 1-click install)
https://userstyles.org/styles/61377/black-google-by-panos ("Black Google by Panos" Google homepage dark theme, 1-click install):
• This userscript's installed filename:
Revert_to_Googles_2013-2015_Favicon.user.js
.png?locale=zh-CN)
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