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Ask HN: How to disable new Google search styling

11 pointsmattmanser6 comments

I personally find the new google look without underlines and massive text to be rubbish, I gave it a go, but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish. What is it with designers constantly trying to get rid of link underlines?

Previously whenever it reared its head, I simply deleted cookies to get rid of it but now it is stubbornly sticking around.

Anyone know how to get rid of it quickly without having to install anything? I have many Chromes/profiles for testing/businesses/etc. so extensions just turn into a massive pita.

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> but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish

What about Hacker News' design? I guess everybody agrees it's ugly, but it gets the job done. I think your just being over-picky for nothing.

I actually find the new design to be more pleasing to the eye and a lot cleaner. And my search results are still as good as before, so who cares.

The new redesign also breaks the "Personal Blocklist" Chrome extension by Google. The text overlaps with the first line after the link.

I was able to get rid of the new styling by doing incognito mode. If I'm logged in to either my gmail or google apps account I get the redesign.

I'm usually a Google-redesign apologist, but this new change is pretty jarring. I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve by removing the underlines.

I'm sure someone will come up with a Greasemonkey script soon enough.

The font and underlining change are a non issue for me (other than looking terrible in chrome for windows); however the increased font size is jarring and reduces the amount of information that can quickly be scanned.

If you are using Firefox, try Stylish, they have a massive user created database at: http://userstyles.org/

Try disabling JavaScript. I just did a quick test and that seemed to work. But then you lose "advantages" such as search suggestions. I don't care, I hate those suggestions anyway.

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