Any way to change Google's background color?

[tjaisv]

Google.com's white background is kind of irritating to watch at times when my eyes are being sensitive, particularly at night. I prefer white text on a black or dark background, and was just wondering if there are any sites with the google search engine that have this color scheme.

TJ

 

[KLin]

No.

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[Golgatha]

Google toolbar?

 

[keeleysam]

Do something with Greasemonkey.

 

[tjaisv]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Google toolbar?

Still takes you to the website for search results though.

What would be nice is a customizable standalone application you could download that would allow you to access google from it.

 

[tjaisv]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Do something with Greasemonkey.

Looks interesting. I guess i'll check it out...

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: tjaisv

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Google toolbar?

Still takes you to the website for search results though.

What would be nice is a customizable standalone application you could download that would allow you to access google from it.

It would take about 5 minutes to write a quick web app which would run a Google search on your behalf, change the background color to something other than white, and return the modified page to you....

 

[tjaisv]

If it takes so little time then maybe somebody's done it and could show me? 🙂

 

[thoro86]

yeah i'm kinda curious too 😛

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: tjaisv
If it takes so little time then maybe somebody's done it and could show me? 🙂

If someone doesn't have something posted up by tomorrow, I'll write one up for you...

 

[tjaisv]

Actually i found what i was looking for. Userstyles.org has a plug-in extension for Firefox, Flock, or Thunderbird browsers that allows you to add "styles" to change the appearance of any website you want. They had several pre-made styles for google.com, one of which was the white-on-black background scheme i was looking for. :thumbsup: