Google new look update!

[Dave Guest]

Without wishing to discourage Kye-U from creating a new filter which zaps the new sidebar, I'd like to lobby for (also?) tweaking the existing ones which don't, because I quite like the new layout!

Indeed, we have at least two filters which try to add some of that sidebar stuff (and are now partly redundant) :-

Google Search: Add Modifier Links 9.06.06 (multi) [sd] (d.s)
Google Search: Add Date Range Box 7.10.22 [sd] (d.s)

Unlike Mele, the Google Search: Remove Ad Blocks 9.04.29 [sd ku] (d.s) filter still works for me on Firefox (and Opera). BUT ... it also kills the new SafeSearch off ? toggle link (to the right of the Search button, in the image below).



And there are slight, or fatal, issues with the Google Search: Alternate Display filters, for me. With either no additional Theme, or with the Light Blue Theme, the sidebar icons are mangled (and block the ability to click some of the first few results).



With either the Dark Blue or Grey Themes, the icons are fine, but the Time-related section of the sidebar is miscolored.



And for any ad-blocked or alternate display, the results no longer flow all the way across the page. Instead they stop where the adverts would be. I forget if it's the Remove Ad Blocks or Alternate Display filters which control that aspect.

Other Google filter stuff :-

They seem to have fixed on a new cache URL (webcache.googleusercontent), so I think the Google: Cached Header Mover 8.11.29 [th sd] (d.s) now needs to start something like this :-

Code:

$TYPE(htm)(webcache.googleusercontent|64.233.1[#60:91]|66.(102.[#0:15]|249.[#64:95])|72.14.[#192:255]|74.125|209.85.[#128:255]|216.239.[#32:63]).[^/]+/(search|custom)\?*q=cache(:|%3)

I don't think the Google Books/Groups: Remove Ad Blocks 9.01.17 [jd ku sd] (d.s) filter is needed any more?

I don't think the Google Images: Direct Links 7.11.14 [po] (d.s) filter works any more?

I'd love one more sub-filter for the main Alternate Display filter, which split the results into two columns. I've been using this User Script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10299 but it would be great to have it baked into my Proxo set.

I think that's about it.

Kye-U to the rescue?