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customizeGoogle

Completely customizes the classic Google homepage. Very fun! New Release, Please Update! Major issues solved. Please read description, comments and update notes to see how to use it!



This script completely customizes the classic Google homepage. You must fill in the first 3 lines of the script with the specified information for the script to work. See comments for complete details. It replaces every place on Google that says Google with your name. Also it replaces the "I'm feeling lucky" text, the G in the Gmail link to your first initial, and a few other things. I will update this script whenever the layout changes on Google, so check back regularly.


**UPDATE NOTES**
NEW! Added ability to redirect links from the Google page. To do this just edit the line below where you enter your picture location. First, you must delete the 2 slashes at the beginning of the line. Change the [4] in square brackets to 0 for the images link, to 1 for maps link, 2 for new, 3 for shopping, leave it as 4 for Gmail, and so on. Then you must change the yahoo.com link to whatever you want. This line can be copied and used multiple times to change many links

NEW! This script now edits the google image search page! I will try to add support for other google pages in my spare time! Stay tuned

NOTE: You can get the swedish version of this script here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/28351 This works with www.google.se

SOLVED! Solved an random issue that sometimes caused links to not change names and solved an issue that caused a meaningless error that didn't affect anything, but kind of annoyed me.

SOLVED!June 22 Solved an issue that just appeared a minute ago that messed up the About _____ Feature

SOLVED!June 24 Solved a common issue that caused the script to crash, this was the result of a layout change in the google page, I just had to re-arrange the order of things in the script.

SOLVED!July 4 Google changed a little bit of the layout, I just added a few lines of code that account for this yet the script still remains backwards-compatible for if they change it back

SOLVED!July14 Fixed an issue on the google image search page that caused the ©2008 Google text to not change

SOLVED!August 18 Fixed another issue caused by the Olympics and Presidential Candidate Google Read messages that cause some features not to change, maintained backwards compatibility

SOLVED!August 19 Fixed a slight programming error that shouldn't have done anything but caused a weird fatal error. I am a native c type language programmer (mainly c++) so maybe it's something I haven't heard about, but it's fixed




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Jul 23, 2008
vital User

sorry for the delay in replying. the google.com.bn script works like a charm. Thanks. Any clue about how to customise the firefox startup page?
 
Jul 13, 2008
blake123 Script's author

@vital: I explained below that in order to change the picture, you have to create a picture (google "google font" or something to get a picture) Then you must put it online and paste the url into the script, i will look into getting the script to work in your region

Edit: I just wrote you a script theat will work for that page, her is the link http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30005
 
Jul 13, 2008
vital User

Thanks for the cool tips, I am a newbie who knows little about scripting, html etc. At first sight I thought this script will insert my name instead of the google pic on the top of the page similar to the "Blake" example you have shown but i was dissapointed when only the text google is replaced, it took me a little more browsing and I found what I wanted at http://googlemyway.com/ but of course the url changes and it is a good replacement for people who dont want to fool around with scripting or modify the original site

I have installed your script but am unable to make it work at my region, google.com.bn eventhough i followed your advise and added it to the list of pages, any suggestion? thx
 
Jul 12, 2008
blake123 Script's author

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this, I was at camp. Please read the previous comments as this question has been asked before. As I had said,"First, make sure you have firefox with the greasemonkey extension installed. Then click the install script button on this page and let it install. Right click the monkey icon in the lower right corner of your screen and choose "Manage User Scripts". Select customizeGoogle in the pane on the left. Click the edit button. If this is your first time editing a script, you will see a browse box. Navigate to c:\windows\notepad.exe and press ok." Thanks for trying out my script and if you find anything else confusing please ask.
 
Jul 6, 2008
11livapool11 User

how do you edit the source?
 
Jun 30, 2008
blake123 Script's author

@dbruggmann: Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but here is the link to my newest translation of customizeGoogle http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29379 This one works with your home page, google.ch
 
Jun 27, 2008
dbruggmann User

For me, the script doesn't work with google.ch – any idea why?
 
Jun 19, 2008
blake123 Script's author

@asiangirlphoto:

Thanks, I'm having fun doing it.
 
Jun 19, 2008
asiangirlphoto User

thank you ,it is really fun,complete different layout,good work
 
Jun 14, 2008
blake123 Script's author

Thanks man, that means a lot. I'm glad to take any suggestions and try to reply as quick as I can. I'm tryin to crank out updates regularly.
 
Jun 14, 2008
Four Walls Scriptwright

@blake123: thanks for the reply. I have customized the script on my computer to link to Gmail and Hotmail and Google Reader. I replaced the "Shopping" link to point to Reader because Google's Reader link doesn't always appear on the home page.

Great script. Thanks for the updates. I show it to everyone who will look at it on my computer.
 
Jun 12, 2008
blake123 Script's author

w00t!!! I finally figured it out! Click this link to install it. Use just like the other, edit the first 3 lines like before. Also, you should uninstall the regular version before using this. Thanks for the challenge! The picture was loaded in a way I had never seen before, I had to edit nodes within nodes within nodes in the DOM module. It works just like the other. You can find it at this link http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/28351
 
Jun 12, 2008
PeppersMagik User

Thanks a lot!
 
Jun 12, 2008
blake123 Script's author

weird, that has a totally different layout, I'm not sure what to do. I'll look at it and try to figure it out
 
Jun 12, 2008
PeppersMagik User

That's what I mean, but I've tried that. (It's google.se for me.)

Edit: Some functions work but not all.
 
Jun 12, 2008
blake123 Script's author

@Peppers: Do you mean foreign pages? Like google.fr? Just right click the greasemonkey icon in the lower right portion of the screen, select manage scripts, select customizeGoogle in the box on the left, the in the box that says included pages, click the add button to the right of it and type the google address you want. If you aare talking about things like Google Image Search, I just now added support for that page!
 
Jun 11, 2008
PeppersMagik User

How can I make this work on other Google-pages than .com?
 
Jun 11, 2008
blake123 Script's author

That's perfectly possible. Just add this line...
lnk[4].href = "http://www.yahoo.com";
This will change the Gmail link to direct to whatever you want. Just replace the yahoo.com part.
If you are trying to do this in a new script, also add this line
var lnk=document.getElementsByTagName("a");
I'm not sure how I would incorporate this into the script as I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. I don't want it to be too complicated for the average computer user. The ability to edit files on the harddrive has been taken out in recent versions of greasemonkey, so I can't do any fancy interface that will re-write the file. I will try to think about any suggestions anyone might have about this script though. Thanks for any feedback!

*Update! feature added, see description on how to use
 
Jun 9, 2008
Four Walls Scriptwright

I like the script. One request for a feature would be to change or add links to the top line of the Google homepage. For example, change the gmail link to hotmail or my own webmail. Is that possible?
 
Jun 3, 2008
blake123 Script's author

Forgive me if I make you feel like a baby, but I'm going to explain everything so that someone with no technical knowledge could use this. First, make sure you have firefox with the greasemonkey extension installed. Then click the install script button on this page and let it install. Right click the monkey icon in the lower right corner of your screen and choose "Manage User Scripts". Select customizeGoogle in the pane on the left. Click the edit button. If this is your first time editing a script, you will see a browse box. Navigate to c:\windows\notepad.exe and press ok. Go to the line that says var name =""; and enter your name in-between the two quotation marks. Go to the next line and enter your first initial. Next, you need to find or create an image and create an account on www.freewebs.com or something like it. Upload the image to the website you just created. Write down the location of this file (eg. www.freewebs.com/yourName/picture.bmp) Now type this location into the line that says var picLoc = "" And thats it! If you need more information just leave another comment.

*Update! See description for info on how to use the link re-mapper!
 
Jun 3, 2008
mish User

Could you tell me the step by step procedure to use this. Because you see, I'm quite new to this stuff and dont know all sort of technical things like all the 'codes' and 'commands' etc.
 
Jun 3, 2008
blake123 Script's author

@Craig: It is important to note that the image file must be somewhere in the WWW. You can't use a local file from your computer. I have been trying to figure out why for a while, but I don't think there is a way to get around this. I advise using something like www.freewebs.com and uploading your image there. Thanks for asking a question, I'll be happy to answer any others.
 
Jun 1, 2008
Craig Bennett User

the script definatly does something, but i cant seem to get my custom image to work.
How do i go about fixing this?

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