• Fixed: Some coding errors.
• Updated: When the user searches the search button use to receive focus as a workaround for google.com. Instead of that and due to Google's new minimalistic homepage, instead of changing focus to another object other than the search box, the focus is just removed from the search box without being given to another object on the screen

Not too long ago a user encountered a defect with the script when running it on Google's new minimalistic homepage. This new homepage was one that had a Google logo and the search box but nothing else, not even the Google Search and I'm Feeling Lucky buttons. This is where the script crashed and burnt.

My script looks for those buttons for two reasons. One so it can change their value to suit the site you've changed to (e.g. changing to search Wikipedia would make the buttons value Wikipedia Search) and two it was a simple workaround for google.com. There was a slight problem with google.com where for some reason hitting the ENTER key wouldn't actually search the site you have chosen but would still run Google's I'm Feeling Lucky search. My simple work around was when the user hit the ENTER key I would change the cursor focus to the search button.

searchButton.focus();

But because this new homepage removed the search button the script would crash firstly at trying to set the buttons value to match the search site but secondly after fixing that error in some of the previous 1.7 beta versions it would still search using Google's I'm Feeling Lucky. After some time I came up with a simple workaround. Instead of changing the focus to another object on the screen (I even tried setting it to the logo which didn't work) I simple removed the focus from the search box completely.

searchBox.blur();

It was simple and effective. The search box no longer had the focus and I didn't have to worry about the search button being present or not.

Thanks

Google Homepage Reloaded Modifies the Google homepage to imitate go.infinise.com giving the user the ability to click the Google logo or press the UP key and change the website they search (i.e. Bing, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube)