Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And "App Launcher" Style Nav Menu Official

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Post by NewsFlash » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 7:49 PM UTC

Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And "App Launcher" Style Nav Menu Official
techcrunch.com

Re: Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And "App Launcher" Style Nav Menu Official

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Post by ihsw » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 8:29 PM UTC

For those checking google.com to see update, you might have to wait. It'll be rolled out gradually over the next couple of weeks.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.ca/2013/09/updating-google-bar-...

It would be nice to see that mentioned in the TechCrunch article, though.

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Post by CWIZO » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this?

The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago.

edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png

edit2: they also somehow managed to use the omni bar for search on google.com, there isn't any search box on the page itself. Which is also highly annoying. What's up with that? http://i.minus.com/iskQdZsxapVei.png

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Post by maggit » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Are you on an experimental version of Chrome? I mean, are you using Chrome, but a variant other than the stable one?

I've sometimes found that they roll out crazy experiments in the non-stable Chrome builds that integrate with crazy features on Google's web sites, such as the "remove the search box from the web page"-feature. I've since come to prefer the stable variant of Chrome :)

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Post by pachydermic » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Weird.

But c'mon... "hate it"? I think you'll get used to it. It's not really a big change in my book.

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Post by olegp » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 8:57 PM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

What do you want your start page to look like?

You could replace it with this app launcher we built: https://starthq.com/ext

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Post by Shank » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 9:02 PM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Disable the extended search API in chrome://flags to turn it off.

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Post by CWIZO » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

maggit wrote: post #4

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Are you on an experimental version of Chrome? I mean, are you using Chrome, but a variant other than the stable one? I've sometimes found that they roll out crazy experiments in the non-stable Chrome builds that integrate with crazy features on Google's web sites, such as the "remove the search box from the web page"-feature. I've since come to prefer the stable variant of Chrome :)

I'm on dev. I'll probably switch to stable yeah. But I'm afraid that this sort of things are gonna drip down to the stable eventually :/

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Post by CWIZO » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 9:11 PM UTC

pachydermic wrote: post #5

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Weird. But c'mon... "hate it"? I think you'll get used to it. It's not really a big change in my book.

Well, I hate it :) I mean fine add this, but make the old version available as a config option or something. I really don't need a big google logo and a search bar every time I press cmd+t

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Post by CWIZO » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

Shank wrote: post #7

CWIZO wrote: post #3

This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago. edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png edit2…

Disable the extended search API in chrome://flags to turn it off.

Awww man, thank you! That's just what I needed!