Replaces New 2015 Google Search Favicon in: Tabs / Address Bar / Menu & Toolbar Bookmarks
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APPLIES TO ALL Google websites (and only them) THAT GOT THE NEW FAVICON on Sept 1, 2015:
Google Web Search, Image Search, Video Search, Patent Search, Accounts Login, My Account, Google Books, Google Photos, Google Shopping, and Google Trends (using either "http://" or "https://" address protocol). The trailing "*" at the end of "@include" URLs in the UserScript metadata block should cover all country-identified URLs. Over two dozen Google sites that have different, individualized favicons from the main Search sites will NOT have their favicons changed by the new Version 3.x+ of this user script, due to the use of targeted "@exclude" URLs in the UserScript metadata block for those sites whose URLs followed a pattern that an "@include" URL would have converted.
Google uses almost 50 different sites for far-ranging services other than Search - and several dozen favicons - listed in the text table
"Google Sites / URLs / Favicon Descriptions" screenshot thumbnail at bottom, or direct link here to full-size (after clicking image to zoom). The sites are shown with their icons on Google's webpage http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/ (which looks better in a black or other "dark-theme Google" Stylish or Greasemonkey script).
Version 2.x of this script unfortunately changed all Google favicons for sites having "google" anywhere in their URL... (Sorry about that!)... I was unaware of the number of individual favicons Google uses - and that only a dozen were changed to the new (ugly) favicon Sept 1, 2015.
Version 3.x of this user script aimed to change ONLY those sites that got the new Search favicon introduced Sept 1, 2015 - and that goal has been achieved. All Google sites shown on the "...Google.../about/products/" page listed above were visited, and it was determined which sites had non-new, individualized favicons to be preserved. The URLs of all sites were recorded (along with their icon descriptions) in the text table referred to above (screenshot at bottom), and used to construct the UserScript metadata block's "@include" and "@exclude" URL entries. After script v3.x was installed, all sites were revisited, and it has been confirmed all Google sites with non-new favicons have their individualized favicons preserved, while all sites with the new favicon are reverted to the previous 2013-2015 favicon. Both "http://" and "https://" address protocols are used in both "@include" and "@exclude" URL entries in the UserScript metadata block, as well as asterisks at the end of URLs that should cover all country-identified URLs.
Google's Sept 1, 2015 Favicon Fiasco (ugly, and annoyingly visible new favicon design) inspired this "Greasemonkey" user script for the Firefox web browser. It reverts all Google favicons - on Tabs, Bookmark Menu, Bookmark Toolbar, and Address Bar/URL Bar/Location Bar (on all Google websites that got the new favicon) to the previous 2013-2015 Google favicon - white lower-case "g" in blue square (image at bottom).
This user script can be installed in Firefox with 1-click (the green "Install This Script" button at the top of this page) - IF the Firefox user script manager add-on "Greasemonkey" is first installed. I have thoroughly tested this user script in Firefox - it works perfectly, and has gets automatic updates from Greasy Fork镜像, also.
It should also work as a "Tampermonkey" user script for other browsers - Google Chrome, Opera Next, Safari, Dolphin Browser or UC Browser - but this had not been tested by me. If anyone tests this as a "Tampermonkey" user script in another browser, I'd appreciate a message informing me of results - I don't use any of the browsers mentioned in this paragraph.
If you don't have a "Greasemonkey" or "Tampermonkey" user script 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)
As stated above, on Sept 1, 2015, Google changed their Favicon. About one day later, a "Greasemonkey" user script 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" user style 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 (nor, I believe, for bookmarks) - it does so ONLY on Browser Tabs. I gave the style a negative review on UserStyles.org because of the Address Bar favicon non-reversion. I was so inpatient for a solution that I didn't wait for the user style's author to address my private message to him about it - and perhaps fix it - I immediately began working on my own fix. The author did reply to me - on the same day I finished my "Greasemonkey script (9/07/2015): "Thank you for your detailed report, I hadn't checked that this user style doesn't apply to other parts of the browser, my bad. Indeed this CSS affects only the tabs. I'm not fully sure if it is technically possible to change all occuring references of the Google favicon in all parts of Firefox via a Stylish user style, otherwise the only solution will be via a more advanced Greasemonkey script..." His webpage on UserStyles.org - link below - now states "KNOWN ISSUES: This user style only overrides the favicon displayed in the tabs, it doesn't replace the Google favicon in other parts of the browser." (HOWEVER, his conclusion is overstated - since (according to my testing), his user style DOES overide Bookmark icons, replacing them with the icon installed by his style (I tested with the 2013-2015 favicon). 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). The animated GIF on his webpage showing the 5 Google favicons available to choose from to be installed with his user style is good work, showing the historical progression of 5 Google favicons over the last 16 years. That GIF on the "Google Search Icon Restorer" author's UserStyles.org page (link below) inspired me to create a modified GIF (animation posted below - click to enlarge). My GIF adds the years that each of the 5 Google favicons was used, and a main caption (both in red text), plus the "Historical Animation" caption at the top. I also eliminated the inter-logo fades, and lengthened the 5 logo dwell times from about 2 seconds each 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. (If you use "Classic Theme Restorer", AND turn off the Address Bar favicon (via "Classic Theme Restorer" Settings > "Location Bar" (left-pane "tab") > UNCHECK "Favicon: current website's icon"), his script works just fine, even seeming to respect Google's non-Search sites' individualized icons, which his style correctly does not revert (only tested on two sites). "Classic Theme Restorer" also allows reverting any or all Firefox "Australis" theme changes that began with FF29.
https://userstyles.org/styles/118366/google-search-icon-restorer
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
The user script on this page corrects the shortcomings - in both previous "Greasemonkey" user script and "Stylish" user style. The new "Greasemonkey" user script on this page has been thoroughly tested, and works for all 40 Google websites (all listed in my text-table, screenshot image below) - due to the highly targeted "@include" and "@exclude" domains in the UserScript metadata block. And it works for all Google favicon locations - on Tabs, Address Bar / Location Bar / URL Bar, and for (Menu and Toolbar) Bookmarks (see NOTES below).
By the way, both the "Greasemonkey" user script and "Stylish" user style 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 new Google favicon was just TOO UGLY 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" user styles 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" user style "Black Google by Panos", which beautifies Google's homepage with a multi-color, highlighted and mirrored Google Logo on black background. Therefore, using Panos' user style immunized me from the new Google homepage logo. I've included a screenshots below (click to enlarge) of Google's homepage with "Stylish" user style "Black Google by Panos" enabled (center detail only, to enlarge the thumbnail images' information). There are several other dark-theme Google Stylish user scripts, even some that use the same replacement logo (multi-color, highlighted and mirrored Google Logo on black background - shown below).
The NOTES section below has a blurb on "Stylish", with download links for it, as well as the "Black Google by Panos" user style.
• Once this user script 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).
• The following sites that got the new Google Favicon on Sept 1, 2015 ARE reverted: Google Web Search, Image Search, Video Search, Patent Search, Accounts Login, My Account, Google Books, Google Photos, Google Shopping, and Google Trends.
• The following sites that have their own, individualized favicons KEEP THEIR FAVICONS - are NOT reverted: Google Calendar*, Google Cloud Print*, Google Contacts, Google Code (had no favicon, gets no favicon), Google Developers, Google Docs, Google Drawings, Google Drive*, Google Earth*, Google Finance*, Google Forms, Google Hangouts, Google Groups, Google Keep, Google Maps*, Google News, Google Play, Google Plus (Google+), Google Scholar, Google Sheets (Spreadsheets), Google Sites, Google Slides (Presentation), Google Store, Google Translate, Google Voice*, and Google Wallet. Also, 4 Google-affiliated sites are unaffected by this user script (their favicons are unchanged by it), since they do NOT have "google" in their URLs: Blogger ("https://www.blogger.com"), Gmail ("https://www.gmail.com"), Panoramio ("http://www.panoramio.com"), and YouTube ("https://www.youtube.com").
"Asterisked" items above WOULD have lost their individual favicons and been reverted, IF NOT FOR the "@exclude" URLs included in the v3.x UserScript metadata block. (IF Google changes site URLs in the future, the metadata block may need to be edited to compensate for URL changes - either for "@include" or "@exclude" URLs.
• By examining the text table image below, and comparing the site URLs to this script's metadata block URLs ("@include" and "@exclude"), the average user should be able to edit their own script to compensate for any future Google site URL changes, or any future favicon changes the user either likes or dislikes. Users may notify me and I'll fix the script (if it's an issue affecting everyone), or guide the user regarding editing the script to suit individual preferences.
VIEWING the "Google Sites / URLs / Favicon Descriptions" text table screenshot full-size, for readable text (thumbnail below): Click this direct link to the full-size image: "Google Sites / URLs / Favicon Descriptions" text table. After it loads, click the image to expand it to full-size; the "+" magnifier cursor indicates a zoomed-smaller image to fit the page. (Getting to the full-size image from this Greasy Fork镜像 page's thumbnail and pop-up has been buggy and difficult in my browser).
The following methods may be problematic for you. (Use of the direct link above, then clicking the image to zoom out to full-size, is the best workaround if the methods below fail):
* Click the thumbnail for a larger popup - still not very readable...
* Right-click the POP-UP image and click "View Image" - the 911 x 1071 pixel image will open full screen, where it can be further clicked to enlarge, and scroll through it. BUT, the "View Image" context menu entry MAY BE MISSING (see below)...
If you have the "NoScript" add-on in Firefox, this may require allowing not only the "gf.qytechs.cn" javascript, but also "newrelic.com", and possibly even "indeed.com". Also, left-right navigation through some of the other images, or MORE THAN ONE right-click on the pop-up may be required BEFORE the "View Image" context menu option appears - something appears buggy about Greasy Fork镜像's full-size image access from their pop-up.
As a workaround, consider the use of the Firefox add-on "Thumbnail Zoom Plus" (useful on SO MANY websites) - after holding the mouse cursor stationary over the pop-up image a few seconds, the image opens onscreen in a large "Thumbnail Zoom" pop-up - this eliminates the need to right-click and "View Image". But the large "Thumbnail Zoom" image pop-up disappears as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the image of interest. ("Thumbnail Zoom Plus" is VERY useful on so many websites to speed enlarged image previewing, such as Google Image search results - virtually all webpage thumbnails, in fact - that I consider it a must have. It is quicker and less buggy than the defunct "CoolPreviews" ever was).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thumbnail-zoom-plus/ (Thumbnail Zoom Plus - 1-click install)
• I apologize for the verbose, TL;DR character of my post - but I wanted to encourage newbies to consider jumping into user scripts and user styles, 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" user style 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.
• "User styles" and "Stylish" (user style manager) is to CSS as "user scripts" and "Greasemonkey" (user script manager) is to JavaScript. (The "Stylish" add-on is a pre-requisite for installation of user styles for "Stylish"). "Greasemonkey" uses JavaScript user scripts to modify target webpages, while "Stylish" uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) user styles to modify target webpages. All users should consider using BOTH user scripts and user styles to modify display of their favorite webpages in their browser - many thousands of free user scripts and user styles are available to do just that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/ ("Stylish" user style 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 user script's installed filename:
Revert_to_Googles_2013-2015_Favicon.user.js
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