Tell them all "just go away"

[venta]

Dear Google,

It's not April 1st, y'know.

Cheers,

Venta

Comments

[lnr]

I don't see anything obviously different. Would you care to expand?

Or is it that I'm logged into gmail so not seeing whatever it is? I don't spot anything if I log out though.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Weird. Have you been to google.co.uk lately ? It's gone all hideous. If it hasn't gone hideous for you, I want to knwo how you did it!

[lnr]

I went and checked before asking!

But I've got quite an old firefox here (2.0.0.18!) and although javascript is on that might be affecting it. Having checked in the up-to-date firefox on Windows I can see what you mean!

[lnr]

Hmm, drat, I can use adblock plus to block the background image, or to block the script, but then I end up with a silly white google logo on a white background (which is visible because of the grey edges round the letters but still looks pretty silly).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that changed very recently - the first time I tried it with JS off (when simont suggested JS), I got the old style multi-coloured logo, but now I seem to get the strange ghost logo.

[lnr]

Thankfully, since I *am* usually logged into a google account, I can change the background image to something a bit less offensively ugly. I've found a pale blue one with little in the way of features in the public galleries which will do for now.

God Google are annoying with their new features you can't turn off lately!

[simont]

The Google front page is displaying large and colourful background images in place of the usual low-bandwidth plain white background.

The image fades in over the first second or so for me, so it's possible there's some sort of Javascript causing it; do you have anything disabled in your browser that might affect that?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aha yes! Turn off Javascript and it returns to classic plain white calm and tranquility :)

Cheers. I'd assumed turning off JS would just stop the fading effect, not stop the whole thing... but it does! Yay!

(Not that I actually ever go to the google homepage much, it just distressed me in an abstract sense.)

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

The classic home as opposed to igoogle has a huge horrible image behind it, not the lovely white background.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Yeah....I default to the igoogle home....so had to hunt what people were moaning about....There is a change background pic, but yeah its a bit loud !