[Mozilla Answers found] Take those Google handcuffs off

[William Ballard <40311.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:35:14PM -0800, William Ballard wrote:
> I hate the new google: it only uses left half of the screen and reserves 
> the right half to draw your eyes to their stinking text ads.
[snip]

Keep a shell window visible beside your FireFox window, remove the 
Google QuickSearch from the toolbar, and use this instead:

$ cat /x/x/gs
lynx -source "http://google.com/search?num=100&q=$*"; | \
  sed -e 's/Froogle//g' -e 's/<img src=[^>]*>//g' \
  -e 's/href=\//href=http:\/\/google.com\//g' \
  -e 's/\([^>]\)<br>/\1/g' > ~/search.html
/x/b/moz/cur/firefox -remote "openURL(/home/tom/search.html)"

(1) It eliminates Froogle
(2) It eliminates Text Ads
(3) It reformats the text to flow completely across the page,
    like it used to before Google Jumped the Shark.