| How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Gilbo | 9/7/10 1:43 AM | I don't know if I'm alone here (I suspect not) but I'm getting increasingly tired of Google's "cute" homepage banner animations. Pacman, Buckyballs and who knows what today's one is... multicoloured balls flying around the screen being repelled by t |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/7/10 2:27 AM | You could set your browser's homepage to: http://www.google.com/advanced_search BTW: In contrast to when the Buckyballs doodle was there, I'm currently seeing the standard classic Google homepage without any nonsense. What's your geographic location |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Kaleh | 9/7/10 3:05 AM | Arrrggghhh! I'm in the US using Google.com and have the multi-colored balls flying around on the screen until they settle down to spell "Google." Anytime you mouse over the logo ... the balls are all over the place again. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/7/10 4:23 AM | @Kaleh: How's CPU utilisation doing, when you're not balling ? (i.e. when display has settled down and you don't have the cursor resting over the logo) |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/7/10 4:25 AM | Sorry, I'm able to reproduce by: http://www.google.com/webhp?gl=us |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Kaleh | 9/7/10 4:31 AM | CPU usage is ok when the balls are napping. 40% when they are dancing around. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | David Wickes | 9/7/10 5:29 AM | The only reason I go to the Google homepage is to look at the doodle - can't remember the last time I used it to search for something... |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/7/10 5:40 AM | Suggestions for turning off the animations: 1. Join Canada: http://www.google.com/webhp?gl=ca 2. Use Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search 3. Use HTTPS (Beta, serves results based on US/English location assumption) - https://www.goog |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Colega | 9/7/10 6:36 AM | These google people need to grow up. Facing a barrage of buckey balls first thing in the morning, and using my precious CPU for adolescent play that my own teenagers wouldn't bother with any more... it's absurd. Thanks for the tips. I will find a way |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | author6666 | 9/7/10 8:20 AM | Absolutely hideous! Eating up my CPU and distracting me when all I want to do is search. What's wrong with these Google morons? Off to use Bing until Google grows up. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/7/10 8:23 AM | Other suggestions: * Use iGoogle* Set a custom background image.* Use Google Chrome |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Kaleh | 9/7/10 9:33 AM | @Alvaro_Galvan Apparently you overlooked the posting guidelines. I would suggest that you review them before continuing to post in the forum. Google WebSearch Posting Guidelines http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=132338 B |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/7/10 9:41 AM | Oh snap. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | switched11 | 9/7/10 12:31 PM | All of you people who are complaining about CPU..... Looks like its time for a new PC. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/7/10 1:10 PM | I say, just to be funny, next year Google should put up two logos simultaneously... they should put up this logo again... and at the same time (maybe above it or below it) put up the Pac-Man logo again... and they should do this on Memorial Day... ju |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | spy8008 | 9/7/10 1:12 PM | Google just made me TURN OFF DAMN JAVASCRIPT. I always thought I would end up doing this, but never ever dreamed that it would be Google that would be the reason. TO FIREFOX DEVELOPERS: I am making a feature request. Please add a capability to Fire |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | private_private | 9/7/10 5:10 PM | @spy8008: the feature you requested has been available for years: it is called NoScript. it is a firefox extention: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/ |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/7/10 5:29 PM | @private_private Unfortunately, the use of NoScript does not allow one to post a passive aggressive message to Google by making a statement for FireFox developers on a support forum for Google Web Search. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Crypto64 | 9/8/10 2:16 PM | Gilbo clearly has a corn cob lodged in his ass. I can think of a lot of things worth getting upset about and Google changing their logo for one day isn't one of them. Cripes. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Gilbo | 9/9/10 2:27 AM | @Crypto64 You comment was not only unnecessary, it was offensive and presumptuous. There are many reasons that people spend a lot of time using Google. People in PR, research, technical support etc use Google hundreds of times a day for work purpo |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/9/10 2:51 AM | @Gilbo: Not only did Crypto64's completely ignore attempting to contribute with an answer to your question, but the first sentence was out of line with the posting guidelines of the forum - thus I did earlier report it as spam. Unfortunately, the for |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Gilbo | 9/9/10 3:05 AM | Thanks, Thomas P, and for your suggestions above which have rightly been voted best answer. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | NinjaNexus | 9/9/10 8:45 PM | ok...so google likes to be innovative, fast, efficient, and immersive to their fans and customers. So what? The Chrome OS, Android phones, Android tablets, and ALL of Google's products reflect their motto. That's what they are. Google. They aren't a |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Thomas P. | 9/10/10 2:18 AM | @NinjaNexus: The problems reported with 100% CPU on those now gone Doodles, was also reported by some people having new hardware (first report I saw on that mentioned a quad-core processor, and that to me doesn't fall into the 100 years old computer |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/10/10 7:02 AM | The easiest solution would have just been to click on the iGoogle link in the corner for the day. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | NinjaNexus | 9/10/10 3:52 PM | @Thomas P: A Quad-Core processor? Well then...I stand corrected. But that still doesn't negate the fact that it's not Google's fault that people have poor CPU usage. I mean, if old computers handled it fine, then it definitely has something to do wit |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | DannyBens | 9/15/10 10:24 AM | These doodles are really becoming a nuisance, even when they are just plain JPGs. I do not want to join Canada, I do not want to use HTTPS - I want to search with the latest auto-complete / instant functions and without being told who's birthday it i |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/15/10 10:55 AM | @DannyBens For most modern browsers, there is usually an add-on or extension you can install to customize this and lock it in to a single logo. Alternately, you could set a background image which pretty much locks the logo, then when there is a birth |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | Smithcraft | 9/16/10 3:06 AM | Why not just search from your browsers search bar, instead of going to Googles homepage? |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | BIGELLOW | 9/16/10 7:21 AM | @Smithcraft Then one wouldn't get use of Instant Search from the get go. |
| Re: How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations? | MiminDimz | 6/9/11 5:19 PM | use Go0g1e.com as home page it never have doodles |