satorioh / google-enhancer

a Chrome extension which makes Google Search more beautiful and convenient

Google Enhancer

Make Google Search more beautiful and convenient

Features • Update • Instruction • Download • FAQ • Credits • Feedback • Donate • License

Features

• Shortcut operation
• Easy access for site/filetype/time search
• Custom shortcut site
• Keywords highlight
• Load results endlessly
• Night mode
• Card-style UI
• Sync settings via Chrome

Update

v1.1.1 (2019/02/17)

Remove:

• remove search form pinned on top function

v1.1.0 (2018/03/22)

New:

• My Shortcut Site

Improve:

• improve Night mode

Instruction

Notice: changes will not take effect until you refresh page.(Press F5)

1. Use arrow keys to flip pages
   Use arrow keys to previous/next page, make your browsing experience faster and smoother.

2. Double click back to top
   When browsing to the page end, you can quickly go back to top via double click at any blank area.

3. Open link in new tab
   If this enabled, search result links will always be opened in a new tab.

4. Search form pinned on top
   If this enabled, search form will always show on top when scrolling page, so you can easily start a new search.(temporarily unavailable for image search)

5. Endless google
   A function transplanted from Endless Google which will load more results automatically when you scroll to the end of a page.

6. Keywords color
   Highlight keywords in text area of result, so that you can easily figure them out.

7. Keywords background color
   Customize keywords background color.

8. Keywords background color opacity
   Customize keywords background color opacity.

9. Site search (context menu)
   Use google to search selected words in current site quickly.(see image below)

10. Filetype search (context menu)
    Find pages in the format you prefer.(see image below)

11. Time Range search (context menu)
    Find pages updated within the time you specify.(see image below)

12. Night mode
    A function transplanted from Google Night Mode which turn the page to dark.(see image below)

13. Card style UI
    A function transplanted from Google Card-Style UI which greatly beautify google UI.(see image below)

14. My Shortcut Site

This function will allow you to add custom site in Site Search.
After enabled, you can add any site into Site Search menu.(see image below)

Then you can search seleted text not only in current site, but also the custom shortcut site which you just added.(if not see, refresh current page)

You can also delete some shortcut site in option page(if not see, refresh option page)

Download

You can download and install from Chrome Webstore.

FAQ

• Q: Does google-enhancer have i18n support ?

• A: Yes, it currently support English and Simplified Chinese, and will add other languages if I learn more in future:blush:.

• Q: Can I enable night mode and card-style ui together ?

• A: Yes, although I don't recommend to do so. Considering some user may want to enable them at same time,I made some changes to let them work together.

• Q: Why site search / my shortcut site function not work ?

• A: First, you need enable site search / my shortcut site function, then select the text you want to search, then right click and site search item will show.

• Q: Can I sync settings between different computers ?

• A: Yes. You just need to login your Chrome, and extension will sync settings automatically via your google account.

• Q: After read all above, why I still can't understand how to use ?

• A: Sorry for my poor english, I swear will improve it in the rest of my life, but actually you can try it yourself, Genuine knowledge comes from practice😊.

Credits

This extension uses code from several open source projects.
As one of the contributors for v2ex-plus, I really learnt a lot from seniors, thank them and all these project below.

• v2ex-plus
• Endless Google
• Google Card-Style UI
• Google Night Mode

Feedback

Find a bug or have a feature request? Please file an issue, or send mail to [email protected]

It would be great if you could read our FAQ first or search in the issues before you post, to avoid duplicates.

All requested features have been summarized here. Welcome to vote for/against them.

Donate

Currently I'm looking for a front-end job, if you're interested in me, please send mail to [email protected].

If you enjoy my works, please consider making a donation, thank you!

LICENSE

MIT

google-enhancer's Issues

color setting for 'visited link'

By default, google searching result uses a different color for visited link. But Google Enhancer uses a very close color that make it too difficult to identify if a link is visited. A configurable color setting would be great.

can't mark search term with double click

Hi,
I cannot select a search term in the search bar by double-clicking

see my screencast as gif animation

Windows 10
Vivaldi | 2.11.1811.52 (Stable channel) (64-Bit)

reduce the flashing

I'm night elf programmer that work at night. I use dark theme to protect my eyes. The problem is with the 'card style ui', after the search finished loading, there is a flashing and then it layouted by GoogleEnhancer. The flashing is very quick but it makes the screen white, and eyes get hurt by the white-flashing.

Don't know if it's possible to remove the flashing, or maybe reduce it. The best would be layout search result directly using 'card style ui', not a re-layout.

Card view layout broken for certain container types

Basically just look at the picture, there are other examples you can easily find doing different searches where the content extends beyond the card style

浮动搜索框 这个选项与谷歌搜索冲突

谷歌搜索 现在的搜索框已经可以滚动固定了 将插件选项打开后 用户体验不好~ 作者可以看看~

Night Mode needs some tweaking

I like the extension, and I appreciate your hard work, but turning on Night Mode reduces my ability to read a Google SERP by about 70%. More contrast is needed between the dark background and the text.

Of course, it could just be my 53-year-old eyes. :)

can you make it compatible with kiwibrowser,

add alternative of right click, and context menu

Question: Firefox port?

Are there any plans to port Google Enhancer to Firefox?

Thanks!

Error not showing Filetype search (context menu)

It no longer shows on google chrome new version. Please update it !

无尽模式显示有问题

Requested features | 已收集的建议

Here summarizes all the requested features and would keep updating. You can vote for/against them, though I don't promise they would all be implemented.

For discussion, please go the corresponding issues. Please do NOT comment under this issue. All comments will be deleted immediately.

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这里总结了已收集到的建议并会持续更新。你可以为它们投票，虽然我并不保证它们都会被实现。

欢迎到相应的 issue 补充你的意见或者提供任何帮助。但请不要在此帖下面留言，所有留言会被立即删除。