Google Reverted to Old Layout

ok guys, here's the solution: close safari, open the terminal and paste this string:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9) AppleWebKit/537.71 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.71'"

That's it!

unbelievablecazzons wrote:

ok guys, here's the solution: close safari, open the terminal and paste this string:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9) AppleWebKit/537.71 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.71'"

That's it!

Doesn't work with Safari Version 5.x unfortunately...

The following is a "Fix/ Solution" that I have created that solves the problem for users of Safari Ver 5.1.10 that Google introduced recently where they now block older version of Safari from using the "Modern Style" layout and features of Google which they had been used to...

You can still use the "Modern Style" Google with Safari 5.1.10 via the "Develop/ User Agent/ Other" menu to switch to a "User Agent" that allows you to use the "Modern Google" however, there is no way to make this as the permanent "Default User Agent" in Safari 5.1.10 and it has to be done for each new tab you open and every time you startup Safari... which is not exactly good or helpful...

That's where this "Fix" solves that for you. This fix will make sure Safari 5.1.10 starts up and uses a custom "User Agent" that allows you to continue to use the "Modern Style" Google and not have to constantly change the "User Agent" via the "Develop" menu...

It also has the benefit over other methods that are about of using FireFox "User Agents" in that this fix creates a Mac specific "User agent" that means you get the correct pages from whatever it is you are accessing on the internet (The FireFox one causes some changes to graphics and page layout when used on a Mac)...

As long as you are certain you are using Safari Version 5.1.10 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and they are all fully updated as far as they can be then this fix should work for you (it already has for several thousand other Safari 5.1. 10 users whom have tried it)...

INSTRUCTIONS.... Safari Version 5.1.10 Fix To Restore The "Modern Style" Google...

IMPORTANT !!! --- MAKE SURE SAFARI ISN"T RUNNING ---

Download the following DMG which contains the "Fix" for Safari Ver 5.1.10...

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7wsl4n5siu7cphw/Safari_Ver_5.1.10_Google_Fix.d mg

When you open the DMG file you will see a window that looks like this...

IMPORTANT --- MAKE SURE SAFARI ISN"T RUNNING ---

STEP 1: Double click on the folder called "A" to open it...

STEP 2: From the new window that opens from folder "A" find the file called "Safari" and drag

it to your Desktop screen to make a copy of it (this is both for safekeeping and in case the "fix"

doesn't work for you so that you can still restore the original file)...

STEP 3: Drag the file from the downloaded DMG window called "Safari" onto the folder in the

same window called "A"...

Now start Safari as you would normally and if the fix has worked you should once again be seeing the

"Modern" look Google once again. You should copy/ move the original "Safari" file you copied to your

Desktop screen to a safe place for storage (Downloads or Documents for example) in case you ever

need or want to restore the original file to Safari at some pint in the future...

IMPORTANT:- If you're still seeing the old version of Google in Safari after trying this fix then

unfortunately it hasn't worked for you and you MUST replace/ put back the

original "Safari" file you copied to your Desktop screen...

This is simple to do and is achieved by simply dragging the original "Safari"

file you copied to your Desktop screen onto the "A" folder in the "Safari Fix"

window...

Happy Googling - MadFranko008 (2014)

PS: Thank you to HapptyTed for the comments... :-)

you're right, sorry, this works only in Leopard... :-)

Graphic Designer, Tucson, AZ wrote:

I found this thread and think that it might be related to my latest dilemma -- re: Google Images search results.

Up until a few days ago (i.e. August 2014 and for the past few years) it always looked like this (see attached -- had to capture this particular screen from FireFox for illustrations purposes) --

This allows a user to quickly locate an image and the thumbnails are fairly large and legible. Now it looks like this --

Uggh. Terrible user interface and not at all useful.

Any comments? I am using Safari 5.1.10 on Mac OS X v 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). Thanks.

Yeah, I hate the layout as well. I come to find out that Google's overlapped layout is for Lion and up and not for Snow Leopard. I tested it by going over to the other partition that has Lion on it, on my computer and overlapped layout is what I get there. Google didn't take into consideration that there are still a lot of folks using Snow Leopard.

madfranco: THANK YOU, THANK YOU,THANK YOU!!!🙂😉

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! So easy and works beautifully.

Thank you! This worked 🙂!

you deserve the plaudits Frank!
any chance of posting the fix for those on Safari 5.0.6 and OSX 10.5.8... some of us luddites still happy to use that...

Thank you VERY much!!! This worked.

On my guest session (without logging in) I was prompted to update Safari (I am currently on Safari 5.1.10) when viewing exactly the page 3 of this thread.

After logging in, it disappeared. lol

Hey man, stupidly ran "the fix" on Lion 10.7.4, without reading that it was for Snow Leopard and now Safari won't open. 😟 Please Help!

Out of context curiosity: the versions in APPLE Safari's history seem to be all wrongly denominated. For instance: if version 5.1.9(0) is before 5.1.10 then it should be named 5.1.09.

Now:

THANK YOU MadFrankoooo! 😀

Finally Safari is back… at least for some more time…

The instructions in you post are better than the .dmg's which, in Step 3, don't alert us to the fact we HAVE to replace the Safari file — for there is already one inside the A folder with the same name.

GREAT JOB!

🙂

The instructions in the DMG are actually quite clear and IMPORTANT "STEP 2" which says...

"STEP 2: From the new window that has just opened find and drag the file called "Safari" to your Desktop Screen to make a copy of it..."

This makes sure you have dragged the file called "Safari" out of the "A" folder to make sure you have a backup copy of it should the fix not work for you. So it is indeed quite clear that you are replacing the file from the DMG called "Safari" with the one in the "A" folder and at the same time making sure you have a backup copy of the original file should the fix not work... ergo there's no need to "alert" in Step 3 that you are replacing a file as the instructions make it kinda obvious that this is what you'll be doing... 🙂

After all you can't have two files identically named "Safari" in the the same folder... 😉

On a side note: I've never understood the bizarre version/ naming conventions used in Mac software or even PC software. It make no sense to have a version number with two decimal points it !!!. For example Version 5.6.3 !!! 😕

It really should be just one point ie: 5.6 or 5.7 etc...

Being an Amiga user which follows the sensible version/ naming conventions of 5.x etc... (one point only) it just seems totally illogical to me the way people whom write software for the Mac or the PC use this bizarre "two point" version number convention... 😕

Anywhoo, hope the fix worked for you and I hope you followed the instructions carefully and kept a back up copy of the file named "Safari" from the "A" folder just in case you need to restore the original file... 😀

Hi, can you make a new version with this or newer user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/7046A194A

Thank you so much!!!