Google's thumbnail pop-ups

[timns]

Those not-so-little images of the website that popup on the right of the search results are awful.

Anyone know how to turn them off permanently?

 

[Curt]

[deleted]

On my Firefox, Google has no thumbnails.

[timns]

scroll all down and select old classic view.

-Curt (December 21, 2010, 04:36 PM)

I'm sure you're right, but I can't find it at the moment. I'll kill my browser and try again later, so thanks!

[timns]

[deleted]

On my Firefox, Google has no thumbnails.

-Curt (December 21, 2010, 04:36 PM)

Mine did, but now they are gone again. FF itself blocking somehow?

[Curt]

Okay, you read it before I deleted it. I was talking about Google Image Search, you may have been talking about a normal Google-"word-search"?

I was just checking my Firefox addons, and realized that I don't know why I have no thumbnails. It must be your personal settings at Google, determining what feature is being used. I don't know.

[nite_monkey]

I don't really mind the thumbnails, because at least for me, I have to click on the little magnifying glass before they even show up. So I don't ever see them.

[nudone]

i think turning off the instant search stops the thumbnails. after that, you can view the thumbnails but first, you have to click within a paragraph of one of the results.

[timns]

Thanks, I'll check my settings one more time. Instant search used to be off, but I have lost those settings several times, and not really noticed in time to try and figure out why.

[nudone]

if you get nowhere with that, you could try the google keyboard shortcuts experiment from the labs. I use it as my default search page - instant search is off and i only see thumbnails when i click on a paragraph. more than that, the shortcuts are very handy - i don't understand why they aren't part of standard search (those stupid cursor shortcuts they added to standard search were just insane, these labs shortcuts are actually usable).

[timns]

Thank you kindly, I shall try that.

[JavaJones]

timns, if you have your browser setup to clear cookies, you may lose settings as I believe that's where Google stores them.

- Oshyan

[Bamse]

My favorite Greasemonkey script GoogleMonkeyR just got updated yesterday. Now has "Site Preview" under "Remove" section He says it is "directly" compatible with Google Chrome and Opera http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9310