Google style for them darkish desktops.
Google's definetely too bright when viewed on my box (which has kinda *dark* desktop settings) - thank whatever Deity you'd like for Firefox and Stylish!
It also hides all the ads - if you want the "Sponsored links" section, there is a stanza in the code, labeled "comment this stanza out to have the sponsored links visible", just comment it out as suggested; thanks to tjaisv for the suggestion.
This is *definetely* not complete; as for now, only the Google's main page, the search results, the Preferences, Advanced Search and Language Options are (almost) complete, and "search in results" has the logo not changed yet in the english version (it works OK on google.pl, though).
And yes, the code is quite some mess, it was coded during 2 nights (and then some) and needs some serious clean-up.
I will try to add the missing google pages to it, too, but that's gonna take some time.
Thanks go to LouCypher for Google Logo Replacer, that inspired this one (and gave some good hints, too).
Enjoy!
***UPDATE***
I've mangled a bit and made the style darken the wikipedia pages, inserted into the search result pages by the Googlepedia firefox extension, so they don't "stand-out" from the dark Google results.
I also added a nice comment to indicate, which stanza needs to be commented-out in order to actually show the ads/sponsored links.
There have also been some minor bugfixes.
So-called "features":
- a nice, dark Google outfit;
- ...with logo's and pictures changed to fit it, too;
- no adds (the ad elements have "visibility:hidden" set) - read above on how to have the ads shown;
- the theme takes care of darkening the wikipedia pages, inserted next to the search results by the Googlepedia Firefox extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/), so they fit nicely into the dark Google and dark desktops.
***UPDATE 2***
the style has been updated due to recent changes in the google website; support of the excellent GooglePedia extension has also been improved.
please do post information on any bugs etc. either here, or send to mikiwoz[ at ]yahoo[ dot ]co[ dot ]uk
Enjoy!
Install options
- Install Stylish for Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or Songbird. If you have Stylish already, make sure you're using the latest version and have JavaScript enabled.
- You need Firefox with Stylish to use this style. Get it now, then Install Stylish, then come back here to install this style.
- - load into the Stylish extension where you can preview and save it.
- - this style has been updated since you installed it in Stylish.
Feedback
Reviews
cjthespy said on Sep 25 2008
too dark
Jonny007-MKD said on Mar 11 2008
hey
thanks for your comment =) im sure we could merge our two projects. but at the moment im a bit busy, in a few days we have vacation and the we could talk about it. where are you from? and do you have any messanger? ;)
greetz
Jonny007
indiessance said on Dec 08 2007
Darkoogle screams Halloween, but this is the tightest dark google style I have seen so far.
Darkbain said on Sep 21 2007
This is sweet, is there anyway the google font can be changed to red so that it matches the REDSHIFT theme?
foraneagle2 said on Oct 15 2006
perfect for halloween season
Micah Bucy (aka eternalsword) said on Jul 04 2006
would be even better if it worked with the other google section ie images, video, news, etc. I tried changing url-prefix(http://www.google.) to domain(google.com) and it mostly works, would just need a few touchups.
tjaisv said on Jun 17 2006
Excellent! Exactly what i was looking for. The only thing i would like to keep though is the Google "Sponsored Links" ad section, which you've ommitted since you didn't want it. Can you tell me how your code could be modified to include it? Thanks.