bitman ([info]bitman) wrote,
@ 2004-01-26 18:23:00
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Current mood:confused

Google weirdness
Okay, so a few days ago I noticed that Google's homepage looked a little bit... different. All of the links at the top (Web, Images, Groups, etc) became more compact, and some of them were replaced with the text "more »". Have I stumbled upon some sort of "magic cookie" that makes everything appear more compact? Is Google discriminating based on my user-agent string, serving a slightly different page to Firebird users?

Has [info]bitman finally gone crazy?

Image of the Google homepage looking all weird-like

I mean, it's not as though I mind; I like the compact interface much better. What bugs me is that I can't reproduce it anywhere but at home.

Update

Okay, so I tracked it down to this seemingly innocent cookie:

.google.com TRUE / FALSE 2147368759 PREF ID=33e7cf87274a7184:TM=1033083790:LM=1033083790:S=hlSuDrbFAkmzbiIq

I still have no idea how I aquired this cookie. It's handy, though, so I think I'll hang onto it.




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[info]suppafly
2004-01-26 07:05 pm UTC (link)
google looks normal in firebird for me.

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[info]kvance
2004-01-26 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Could you make that <pre> into a <tt>, or put it behind an LJ cut? It's widening my friendspage :(

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[info]bitman
2004-01-26 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, just wanted the tabs to show up right. Fixed.

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[info]kvance
2004-01-26 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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