Reverts Google Favicons: Address Bar; Tabs; Menu/Toolbar Bookmarks
目前为
Revert to Google's 2013-2015 Favicon (image at bottom)
APPLIES TO ALL Google websites 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 "*" after "google.*" should cover all country-identified URLs. Over two dozen Google sites that had individualized favicons will NOT be reverted in Version 3.x+ of this userscript, due to the use of targeted "exclude" URLs in the UserScript metadata block (for those sites whose URLs followed the pattern that an "include" URL would have reverted).
Detailed Google sites' favicons treatment is discussed in the NOTES section at the bottom, and a very detailed text-table screenshot of "Sites/URLs/Favicons" is included among the images at the bottom.
Google's Sept 1, 2015 Favicon Fiasco (ugly, and annoyingly visible new favicon design) inspired this "Greasemonkey" userscript 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 - to the previous 2013-2015 Google favicon (white lower-case "g" in blue square - image at bottom).
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. I have thoroughly tested this userscript in Firefox - it works perfectly, and it gets automatic updates from Greasy Fork, also.
It should also work as a "Tampermonkey" userscript 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" userscript 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" 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 highly targeted "include" and "exclude" domains in the UserScript metadata block) - 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).
• NOTE: In the previous Versions 2.x of this userscript, ALL sites with "google" in their URLs were reverted to the 2013-2015 favicon. When I discovered how many Google sites had individualized favicons that were not changed over to the new favicon (over two dozen - specifics immediately below), highly targeted "include" and "exclude" URL metablock data was added to preserve those individualized favicons). Use of both "http://" and "https://" address protocols, as in Version 2.x, continues, as well as asterisks at the end of URLs that should cover cover all country-identified URLs.
According to the "include" and "exclude" URLs written into this UserScript's metadata block (as of Version 3.x):
* ALL sites THAT GOT THE NEW GOOGLE FAVICON will be 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 will NOT be reverted (will KEEP THEIR FAVICONS): Google Cloud Print*, Google Calendar*, Google Wallet, Google Scholar, 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 Sheets (Spreadsheets), Google Sites, Google Slides (Presentation), Google Store, Google Translate, and Google Voice*. ("Asterisked" items above WOULD have lost their individual favicons and been reverted - as in Version 2.x - EXCEPT for the "exclude" URLs included in the Version 3.x UserScript metadata block. (IF Google changes site URLs in the future, the metablock data may need to be edited to compensate for the URL changes - either for "include" or "exclude" URLs).
There is a detailed Google Site / URL / Favicon Description text-table screenshot included in the images below. Click the thumbnail for a larger popup - and CLICK THE POPUP IMAGE FOR A LARGER, FULL SIZE IMAGE IN A NEW TAB OR WINDOW.
• [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
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