tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post4802156162995685289..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Popular Names for iGoogle TabsAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-514298392502237152012-07-02T10:40:23.505-07:002012-07-02T10:40:23.505-07:00i think the home tab is not a very good idea, it&#...i think the home tab is not a very good idea, it's too troublesomeAiman Jhttp://jasapindahan-jasapindahan.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-1052113579037912612012-05-07T00:12:47.080-07:002012-05-07T00:12:47.080-07:00Google is always one step a head from any search e...Google is always one step a head from any search engine there is. Salute to google.Andi katahttp://andikata.blogdetik.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-55191191557303327782010-02-11T15:21:29.457-08:002010-02-11T15:21:29.457-08:00There is a firefox addon to hide the "home&qu...There is a firefox addon to hide the "home" tab. There is an AdBlock Plus script to hide the "home" tab. There is also an addon in Chrome to hide it. <br />So many people hate the home tab, but have we ever gotten a response from igoogle about this insane waste of space?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-49945105332844619992009-12-08T07:12:14.148-08:002009-12-08T07:12:14.148-08:00Hey Google.
I appreciate your services, but I r...Hey Google. <br /><br />I appreciate your services, but I really don't care for your moving the tabs (which I don't really use) to my screen real estate.<br /><br />Please correct this or I will be forced to find another service.<br /><br />thanks,<br />dandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-91014314434258429482009-11-20T12:37:31.066-08:002009-11-20T12:37:31.066-08:00I use my laptop for business and I DO NOT like see...I use my laptop for business and I DO NOT like seeing on my homepage "Enable chat". I hate this new tab...waste of space, completely of no value!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-81994996602348195862009-11-20T09:15:04.381-08:002009-11-20T09:15:04.381-08:00Google is enforcing a very specific mode of operat...Google is enforcing a very specific mode of operation on their user base 'us' and we don't have control over that. That's the problem! That's what i have! There's a business reason and $ associated with side tabs.<br /><br />Me too, I'm searching for something else. it's out there somewhere...<br /><br />Jack (pissed off & soon to be ex iGoogle user)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-12149235800320769652009-11-19T05:45:32.633-08:002009-11-19T05:45:32.633-08:00I have also been using the "http://www.google...I have also been using the "http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all" workaround for viewing my igoogle page. After many years of using / mastering the google search engine I'm throwing in the towel. Google is the winner. I cannot tolerate the side tabs PERIOD. I am going off in search of a new search (engine). Yahoo is OK but I'm thinking about giving bing a try even though I have steered clear of bing until now because Microsfot already controls almost everything in my life. SCREW igoogle & SCREW the google search engine. I will keep my gmail acount so try not to mess that up too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-18936185581300589452009-11-18T14:29:57.926-08:002009-11-18T14:29:57.926-08:00Seriously, why not give us an option to either use...Seriously, why not give us an option to either use the new or the old layout instead of forcing the change upon us all.<br /><br />Have a poll on iGoogle where we users may say what we think of the new layout. But clearly reading through many of the comments said here, many of us are unhappy with the change!<br /><br />Are you being such fucking hypocrites that you can't live up to your own sayings? You say you made these changes to benefit us all?<br />Well, clearly you were mistaken. It takes up space, it looks hideous! Every time I open up my firefox and it takes me to my homepage, my eyes drift to the left looking at that stupid ass tab bar!<br /><br />As "Maine Character" said in his/her rant. The mozilla addon makes it better than it is now! (If an addon can do it, why can't you?)<br /><br />So as a long-term user of iGoogle I'm saying this;<br />If the new tabs don't go, I will do as most have already done.<br />That's change their homepage, and stopped using iGoogle.<br />Even Bing is looking tempting at the moment!<br /><br />//Sincerely Henrik. (A very displeased iGoogle user)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-20714850293772936942009-11-18T08:37:45.939-08:002009-11-18T08:37:45.939-08:00Rant Followed by Solution:
Dear Google,
Remember...Rant Followed by Solution:<br /><br />Dear Google,<br /><br />Remember back in the 80’s when Coke changed to New Coke? Remember the outrage? And how Coke had to bring back Classic Coke and dump that new piss water they tried to foist upon us?<br /><br />Imagine if they’d said, “No, this is it. Drink up. You’ll like it.” Imagine if they made you go to another store to get your old Coke. And then Coke found out about it and took that away from you. And you had to go search and find another store, way over in the UK, and again go out of your way to get it, and guess what? They closed down that route, too, and filled the racks with New Coke.<br /><br />What would you do? Would you really say, Oh, thanks, Coke, for waking me up to your bountiful wisdom? Thanks for showing me the better way?<br /><br />No. You’d say, “Screw you. If this is the way you treat us, totally ignoring all the outcries and frustration, SCREW YOU. I’m going to Pepsi, ‘cause at least they don’t go purposely pissing everyone off every six months.”<br /><br />There. They won't listen to that, either, but truly, I was about to quit them altogether when I found this page, where someone mentioned this Firefox add-on, which just made my Google page even better in that it allows me to choose the size of the header.<br /><br />Hear that, Google? They made it BETTER. That's why I sent them a donation instead of ranting about them all over the web you think you have a monopoly on.<br /><br />End Rant, Cue Solution:<br /><br />https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10113Steve MChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026970188928733645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-44701290893057737712009-11-18T02:04:03.743-08:002009-11-18T02:04:03.743-08:00The Home Tab is bloody awful. I presume Google wil...The Home Tab is bloody awful. I presume Google will fix this asap otherwise I'm gone... There's no point using igoogle at work anyway if all I can see is a stupid Home Tab covering half my minimal screen...<br /><br />Sort it out Google!<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />Currently looking for an alternative...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-53683908862131705932009-11-18T00:08:40.518-08:002009-11-18T00:08:40.518-08:00Dear Google,
I have decided today that I hate you...Dear Google,<br /><br />I have decided today that I hate you. And I do not use the word 'hate' lightly. For the third time now I have come home from work, only to find that you have decided in your wisdom to fuck me over yet again. What did I ever do to you? Why are you doing this to me? I guess it's my own fault really, I was stupid enough to stay after the second time you forced your 'Home' tab down the side of my screen. Well, today I take a stand. Today I say NO MORE SIDE TABS! I am over Google, I am over the randomness of your actions. Today, I find a new browser to call home and I am never coming back.<br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />PISSED OFFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-44326213515330966712009-11-17T22:01:43.106-08:002009-11-17T22:01:43.106-08:00Give me the CHOICE or i will LEAVE
grahamGive me the CHOICE or i will LEAVE<br /><br />grahamUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09722274091756688414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-28185422913105611962009-11-17T19:47:30.129-08:002009-11-17T19:47:30.129-08:00I hate the left tab....Please Please Please make i...I hate the left tab....Please Please Please make it go away.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13816052541847503066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-69292662676017332442009-09-02T17:02:02.122-07:002009-09-02T17:02:02.122-07:00There is a lot of frustration with the new irritat...There is a lot of frustration with the new irritating and unnecessary left column. What used to be a lovely clean white space has become cluttered with trivia which is visually distracting.<br /><br />I vote NO on the issue of the invasive left column.<br />Don't become the new Microsoft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-9304944854106894772009-08-04T13:02:28.019-07:002009-08-04T13:02:28.019-07:00I don't want that space-wasting, annoying, irr...I don't want that space-wasting, annoying, irritating left column! I do want the option to be able to search pages from the UK, which means I need google.co.uk. Sadly the above workaround doesn't seem to work with google.co.uk. Are they trying to alienate ALL the people who up to now thought google was wonderful?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-64547019477359528522009-07-15T22:41:03.899-07:002009-07-15T22:41:03.899-07:00Try this workaround:
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=a...Try this workaround:<br />http://www.google.com/ig?hl=allAlex Chituhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-17722101294864654912009-07-15T22:22:52.247-07:002009-07-15T22:22:52.247-07:00I've just been googling to try and get my tabs...I've just been googling to try and get my tabs back, and discovered the workaround isn't working... not happy :( I use www.google.co.uk<br /><br />Why've they done this - the horizontal tabs "wasted" no more space than the vertical ones. It really feels counter-intuitive.<br /><br />I only use igoogle for a set of categorized links and some news widgets, that's about it...so I may have to look elsewhere, which is a shame. I liked the old one. *sob*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-44321937342183952332009-06-05T09:32:10.669-07:002009-06-05T09:32:10.669-07:00The left tabs are back and the "ig?gl=all&quo...The left tabs are back and the "ig?gl=all" workaround no longer is (a workaround).<br /><br />Why is Google so insistent on forcing this change on users??? I'm using the "iGoogle Tab Remover" add-on for Firefox to get rid of them for now, but there should be a preferences setting for iGoogle that lets me TURN OFF TABS COMPLETELY.<br /><br />Tabs are, in a word, evil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-48960182782280775212009-06-05T05:07:36.006-07:002009-06-05T05:07:36.006-07:00OMG, the home tab is BACK !!!!OMG, the home tab is BACK !!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-6133706600990905802009-06-04T17:24:50.370-07:002009-06-04T17:24:50.370-07:00Yup, the absolutely useless, space-wasting home ta...Yup, the absolutely useless, space-wasting home tab is back again! What is wrong with the knuckleheads at Google that they think this is good idea. Taking away 20% of the screen real estate with no option to disable it. The reason I started using Google as my home page in the first place was because it was so customizable. <br /><br />The timing is kind of ironic considering Microsoft just came out with Bing. It was great while it lasted Google, but I guess it's time to find a new home page.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573899818340161079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-62419701850587227312009-06-04T14:18:56.977-07:002009-06-04T14:18:56.977-07:00No...no! I just opened up Firefox and the iGoogle ...No...no! I just opened up Firefox and the iGoogle homepage has changed to the tab form, even though the http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all trick was working fine up until now. <br /><br />I hope I'm overlooking something here. Otherwise, it's back to looking for another solution...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-12919337245681787502009-05-28T13:52:11.635-07:002009-05-28T13:52:11.635-07:00The iGoogle weather column is the stupidest thing ...The iGoogle weather column is the stupidest thing Google has ever done. It's been months and, no, they don't listen to their users, at all. However, there is a way around it. Just type in igoogle.ca instead of igoogle.com. The Canada version still doesn't use the weather column. The only time it matters is when you're buying something locally and you get Canadian adds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-36290913290647072572009-04-30T19:25:00.000-07:002009-04-30T19:25:00.000-07:00http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all fixes the 'tabs on...http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all fixes the 'tabs on the left' but breaks Google Suggest. Meh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-12987410962408900192009-03-25T18:32:00.000-07:002009-03-25T18:32:00.000-07:00Do you want to get rid of the side tabs on iGoogle...Do you want to get rid of the side tabs on iGoogle and go back to the way it use to be?<BR/>Copy and paste this link - http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all<BR/>You will see your old iGoogle is back. Now go to your internet options and save this as your current home page. You may want to save this link because you will find from time to time it goes back to the new way again but not very often.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-27074206317244946972009-03-06T15:19:00.000-08:002009-03-06T15:19:00.000-08:00THE HOME TAB IS BAAAAAAAAAAAACK! Make it go away,...THE HOME TAB IS BAAAAAAAAAAAACK! Make it go away, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com