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[Heartripper]

Hey, today i noticed that google loads in nightly the old-fashioned search in nightly. I tried with a new profile too. It doesn't happen in Aurora, nor in Chromium, nor in IE9.

Some screenshots:



Also in the italian version the logo is loaded incorrectly:



This things make me realize how bad looking the internet was in the past

[Orry Verducci]

Google often use cookies to set how the site should appear to you when they are testing stuff (for example if you get the new Google bar or not). In this case, it appears your Nightly has somehow got one to give you the old design, which must be some sort of error on Google's end. Nice to see though!

[Heartripper]

Orry Verducci, on 18 February 2012 - 16:13, said:

Google often use cookies to set how the site should appear to you when they are testing stuff (for example if you get the new Google bar or not). In this case, it appears your Nightly has somehow got one to give you the old design, which must be some sort of error on Google's end. Nice to see though!

I thought that too, but after deleting the cache and cookies nothing changed

[DudeBro]

I got the same problem in nightly but changing the user agent fixes it for me. In about:config add "general.useragent.override" and string value "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2" or whatever previous version of firefox.

Websites sometimes appear differently on other browsers and they detect that by sniffing the user agent. Try using iPad safari browser user agent and you can emulate googles iPad layout on firefox.
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5

edit:
It appears that today's nightly changed user agent formatting. https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=588909
old nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120217 Firefox/13.0a1
today's nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/13.0a1 Firefox/13.0a1

This broke the google. So temp workaround is to manually change user agent or wait for google to fix it on their end.

[The_Decryptor]

Google was sniffing the year? wow, that's pretty bad.

[muratoner]

i got this issue too with the last update too. It seems google doesn't like users with the latest tech.....not gonna downgrade to chrome for this.

[Simon-]

The probably used that part of the useragent to detect if the rendering engine is modern enough for the standard design otherwise it will revert back to the old for compatibility reasons. The changing of the date format broke this backwards compatibility (Better to use dates than version numbers it would be simpler to do when Nightlies are involved which won't have a predictable version number)

[xn--bya]

I get the both the new and old headers:

[V23]

xn--bya, on 19 February 2012 - 11:19, said:

I get the both the new and old headers

Yep, me too. Hopefully it's fixed in the next nightly build.

[cork1958]

Heartripper, on 18 February 2012 - 16:08, said:

Hey, today i noticed that google loads in nightly the old-fashioned search in nightly. I tried with a new profile too. It doesn't happen in Aurora, nor in Chromium, nor in IE9.

Some screenshots:



Also in the italian version the logo is loaded incorrectly:



This things make me realize how bad looking the internet was in the past

How bad looking it was? What's bad about that? It's called simple and simplistic and it loaded very fast too, I bet, which is how I wish it still was instead of all the bloat/crap Google has on their page and in their browser!! I'm not complaining about the speed of Google loading, but if everyone was still using dial up, I'd bet there be more complaining about it then?

90% of the reason I WILL NOT use anything Google!! It IS NOT the greatest thing since the wheel, or internet!! Google sucks green donkey d**k!!

[Heartripper]

cork1958, on 19 February 2012 - 12:16, said:

How bad looking it was? What's bad about that? It's called simple and simplistic and it loaded very fast too, I bet, which is how I wish it still was instead of all the bloat/crap Google has on their page and in their browser!! I'm not complaining about the speed of Google loading, but if everyone was still using dial up, I'd bet there be more complaining about it then?

Nowadays version is minimalistic and loads almost instantly.

[Oz.]

I have

xn--bya, on 19 February 2012 - 11:19, said:

I get the both the new and old headers:

same here

[iwod]

same here......

Edit: Just read it is some changes in latest Firefox that causes that.

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=588909

[n_K]

Just when you couldn't hate mozilla any more than you currently do.
They go and change this, which adds zero benefit but ****s every standard up.
Oh way to go...

[Kirkburn]

n_K, on 19 February 2012 - 15:58, said:

Just when you couldn't hate mozilla any more than you currently do.
They go and change this, which adds zero benefit but ****s every standard up.
Oh way to go...

What utter tosh. Why not actually read the bug ticket? UA strings are hardly a strict standard, as it is (and have a loooad of historical complexities around them). Sites should be feature sniffing, not browser sniffing. Do you have much experience with how UA strings work?

As it is, it's not going to stay broken/weird for long. Google is likely thinking the browser version is much older than it is.