How To Use Old Google Image Search

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By Mike (Contact - View My Woyano)

Published Tue 13 Feb 2007, 2156 Views, 3 Comments

Many people hate the new design of Google Image Search and want the old one back. It's pretty easy to do that, as Google shows the classic design if you disable JavaScript. But here's a way to disable JavaScript only for Google Image Search.

Firefox:

Go to your Firefox profile. For Windows XP, go to Start/Run and type:
%appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/
Then click on your profile's folder and open user.js in Notepad (if you can't find it, create a blank text file named user.js). Add these lines at the end of the file:

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "nojs");
user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.sites", "http://images.google.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.javascript.enabled", "noAccess");

You should replace images.google.com with your localized version (for example: images.google.co.uk). Then restart Firefox.

You now should have the original Google Image search back :)

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The very moment I saw the new search, I did the same thing. Even shared the tip on Digg, where it was summarily ignored despite all the people complaining about the crappy changes. :)

I don't mind the nice hover effects Google added, but making it more tedious to view important information was lame.

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Mike ~ 16 months ago

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I see the original google search is back. Im guessing they had a lot of negative feedback from users.

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How do I get the old search list back. I am not a keyboard person. Before I could type in 2 letters and look up to see if I had searched for that site before. Now I might as well just look at the keyboard and type in the whole question. Please help!!

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This is my two cents...

Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)

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