Old Google

Replaces the logo on Google, Google Images, and both their respective search pages 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.

Goals

I am open to PRs for help on features and improvements if you would like to help!

• Implement favicon replacement.
• Allow extension to only run on the www.google and images.google subdomains, in case of conflicts with other Google sites.
• Sign, package, and distribute this extension on AMO.
• Google Images support.
• Google Doodle support.
  • Google Doodle search page support.
• Option for an old Googlebot UA switcher to get an older interface.
  • Dark mode old UA support.

Compiling for Testing

Requirements:

• Firefox (obviously)
• Mozilla's web-ext tool. (Available on most Linux distributions as the web-ext package, or through npm install --global web-ext on Windows and non-supporting Linux distributions)

Steps

1. Clone the GitHub repo:

   git clone https://github.com/toydotgame/old-google.git
   cd old-google/

2. Build the code:

   web-ext build

3. 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, find web-ext-artifacts/, and in that, double-click to open old_google-x.x.zip.

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.