Google "fade" thwarted!

Hi all,

I have no idea if anyone is interested in getting rid of the Google fade thingy (I believe that's the technical term for it) or not, but I found, or was, rather, given, the fix.

Also, I have no idea as to whether this will work with any other flavor of Mozilla beside SeaMonkey. I can only vouch it works on SeaMonkey 1.1.18. Others will have to try it and see.

Anyway, the site is: http://userstyles.org/styles/23032 and click "Show Code ".

I'll spell it out here as to what I did:

1) Open Notepad
2) Copy the information in the box to Notepad

3) Save the file as: "userContent.css" (without the quotes) to your Desktop.
4) Open your Profile folder (xxxxxxx.slt) and click on the + sign in front of it.
5) There you'll see a folder called "Chrome ". Cut the userContent.css file from the Desktop and paste it into the Chrome folder.
6) Close out and launch SeaMonkey.

 

Hi all,

Well, I'm amazed. There's millions of people that hate Google Fade and I've posted where to find the "fix" if they let me know (on the blog sites) and as of today, 12-17-09, no one has asked!

Is it just me, or does it seem like people only want to "curse the darkness instead of lighting a candle "?

Or, am I just being an old f a r t?

 

Maybe someone should explain what "Google Fade" is?

 

I never heard of the term, nor do I use google.com. I did a search, and found a lot of hits.
This onemay answer some questions.

 

I never heard of the term, nor do I use google.com. I did a search, and found a lot of hits.
This one may answer some questions.

 

jpChris: I have Google as my home page and use two of the links -- Images and News -- several times every day. Recently I've been noticing that fade-in effect and have wondered what was causing it. I find it a little annoying, but not enough to switch to something else. Question: Does the fix you show just cancel out the fade-in effect or does it switch from the fade-in version to the minimalist version? If the former, I might try it. Otherwise, I'll learn to adapt to that fading-in, because I want those links to show.

 

@Westside & Bmoore1129,

Google "fade" is the window opening with just Google and the search box — until you move your mouse; then the rest of the page "fades" into view. I found it extremely annoying as did a lot of others. And even today, below my posts (using various nom de plumes) for the fix, people are still complaining: Hence my query, "light a candle. "

@BOBBO

It cancels the fade effect and gives you the Google page of old. Try it and see. I just followed my own instructions and it took less than a minute to do.

 

I tried it and something isn't working right. I got as far in your instructions as copying the script to Notebook and saving it as directed, but when I went to copy that to my profile, I couldn't paste it. Backing up a step, there are no Copy or Delete options available in Notebook, so apparently that's the step that isn't working. Am I missing something? I'm using SM 2.0 in a new computer running Windows 7, if that makes any difference.

 

Hi BOBBO,

"Notepad ", not Notebook. And, you don't copy it to your Profile, you navigate to your Profile, click the + sign in front of it and there you'll see a folder called "Chrome ": That's where you paste it — in the Chrome folder.

Right-click the file you just made (wherever you saved it) and select "Cut ". Navigate to the Chrome folder, right-click it and select "Paste ".

Write back.

 

Very sloppy wording on my part. I really did save the script in Notepad, not Notebook, and I did try to paste it into the Chrome folder. Sorry.

Trying again, I still have trouble getting the file into Chrome. I tried both the Cut and the Copy options in Notepad but Chrome doesn't want to accept either one. There's no Paste option in the menu when I right-click in Chrome, and using Ctrl + V doesn't work, either. How do I go about getting Chrome to be more cooperative?

 

I just read your specs and see you're running W7. I really don't know if there's an extra hoop you've got to jump through. There shouldn't be, though.

Anyway, when you went to your Profile folder, clicked the + sign in front of it and the folders opened under it, you did right-click on the Chrome folder and select Paste, right?

 

Win 7 is a bit different. There's no + sign in front of a folder's name or tree view of its contents. The folder has to be double-clicked, then you can see what's in it or click on something. The path to a user's profile is different than in XP, too. And even the name of the profile is different, too -- no more *.slt. It's *.default now.

Right. Although because there's no tree view anymore, I have to open the Chrome folder to do anything with it. It seems to be impenetrable, though, not letting me paste anything into it by any means I've tried.

(Are the complications I'm presenting to you the cause of the "trow s'nhoJ .tS "? )

 

Verrrrry observant!

Anyway, if you can find the folder, you don't open it "” you just paste the .css file into it.

 

By "it" I'm assuming you mean the Chrome folder. It just won't let me paste the .css file into it. There's no menu to select Paste from, so I highlight the Chrome folder and press Ctrl + V. Doesn't work. I try pasting it into the profile folder that Chrome is in, hoping the file will migrate into the Chrome folder. Doesn't work. Open the Chrome folder and try there. Doesn't work. There just doesn't seem to be any way to paste anything into that Chrome folder. I've copied and pasted many things in the past successfully, so this problem is a new one for me. It has me baffled.

 

Hi BOBBO,

You are experiencing just one of the dozens of annoying things about W7 that cemented my decision not to buy it.

Anyway, here's a thought: when you click the Chrome folder and it opens, if there a file in there that says, "userContent-example.css" or, "userChrome-example.css "?

If so, both of those files can be safely edited and renamed because they're just example files.

Just open either one in Notepad and delete the contents, paste in your new lines, click file and save as "userContent.css ", close out and you should be good to go.

 

That helped. I emptied one of the sample files and pasted in the Notepad script and saved it, so we got that part of the process working right. Then I closed down SM and reopened it. Fade-in still there. Pppfffffftttt!! Unless the change won't take effect until I shut down and reboot, I'm thinking it's a lost cause and I'll just have to wait until Google makes the effect an option or does away with it altogether. But thanks for the valiant effort. I appreciate it.

But think of all the fun you're missing out on -- learning new things, adapting, improvising, overcoming.

 

OK, I experimented with the spacing of the original file and changed it to:

*********************************

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix('http://google.'), url-prefix('http://www.google.') {
#ghead, #sbl, .fade, #fctr{ opacity: 1 !important; }
}

***********************************

and saved the change. I closed out and fired up SM and Google did what I wanted it to do.

Do me a favor, please; copy the 4 lines between the *'s, open your previously saved userContent.css file, delete everything in there and paste in the above (make sure Wordwrap isn't checked), save it as userContent.css (again) and see if it works. I just heard from someone using SM2 and they said it worked for them — of course they were using XP.
p.s. The above isn't formatted correctly in this forum. However, if you copy and paste, it will be on 4 lines, not 5 or 6 like it shows here.

 

Bingo! That worked, even with Windows 7 and SM 2. Thanks for sticking with me. Good job.

 

Finally!!!

Now, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to give others the link here for the fix.

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