On Monday 12 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > Google seems to have optimised its pages for wide screens, with a > toolbar on the left, search results in the middle and previews on the > right. Earlier I used to have a Firefox extension called > "OptimizeGoogle", which would reorganise Google search results to > only show the results, and remove all the cruft (e.g. the toolbar on > the left is just a real-estate waste for me 99.99% of the time). > Unfortunately OptimizeGoogle seems to have stopped development, and > is not available for FF anymore. > > Anyone know a fresh Google extension for FF which would (in > decreasing order of preference): > > - Remove cruft (incl. left toolbar) from Google search results > - Automagically set 50 results per page > - Delete Google cookies (or automatically set custom cookies) > - Add sequence number to results > - Replace Google search links with links to the actual site > - Get rid of the preview feature
Hmm, there's another option: switch completely to duckduckgo.com, which has cruft disabled and privacy enabled by default anyway. I tested with a few sample queries and the DDG and Google results seem to be comparable. However, the duckduckgo results are beautifully visible in my 515-pixel-wide browser window, and they stream on scrolling (no more "next page" nonsense). Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
