How can I get same Google Images results as in internet explorer
If I search Google Images in IE8, I get a result page list with a fixed number of items per page. These image thumbnails download quickly, and under each image there is useful text information about the image content and its source. Images for the next page don't download unless I select the next page from the list, so modem activity stops quickly.
When I use the same URL - www.google.com - in Firefox, and switch to Images, I get pages with an indefinitely large number of result images. All images are jammed next to each other, and there is none of the useful text information shown at all. If I try to scroll to the bottom of the display, more images keep downloading. There seems to be no Google setting available in this view to limit the number of images per page.
Just one of the problems this causes is that I am currently limited to a 56KB connection. The images in this view download so slowly that they just never complete in a reasonable time.
However, aside from connection speed, there is the issue of the missing useful text information.
I can search images on startpage.com and get something like the old Google format, but I may not be getting the best result list that I would expect from Google. Startpage uses Google for their regular web searches, according to a note on the web search view. But if I switch to Images, this note disappears.
Can I invoke the traditional Google Images search in Firefox?
Chosen solution
Resolved problem by saving a bookmark to Google, and then editing it to add the &sout=1 keyword to the URL.
When Google is accessed with this keyword, it will carry between web and image searches.
This gets the classic Google images view consistently.
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There are two things you can do.
- 1) block all images.
- 2 Try this add-on;
DeferredTo faster Firefox web browsing {web link} DeferredTo strives faster web page loading. This extension loads content which is in the visible area of the page first. It defers loading of content that is below the visible screen. Large size content loaded just in time: images, media and frames
Keep in mind that Google searches have user set prefs that are saved in cookies, and a user who is signed in to Google+ has more control over search prefs. The difference you see between different browsers could be due to that.
You could also install a custom search plugin and not search from the Google main page or the Google Images main search page.
I use a Google Images (Classic) search plugin that I got from the Mycroft Project website a number of years ago. 4 images across with 5 rows = 20 per page http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=Google+Images
Unfortunately that website was moved to its own domain very recently and I suspect some of the older and less downloaded plugins may have disappeared; I don't see the Google Images (Classic) plugin there right now.
At the top of this page is Inbox, which is used for Persona Messages in this forum. Send me your email address and I will email that search plugin as an attachment. File size is 3KB. Just drag the file into Firefox and it will self-install.
Chosen Solution
Resolved problem by saving a bookmark to Google, and then editing it to add the &sout=1 keyword to the URL.
When Google is accessed with this keyword, it will carry between web and image searches.
This gets the classic Google images view consistently.