If you don’t have Greasemonkey installed on your browser, download and install it from the Firefox Add-ons Centre. We will be using a Greasemonkey script to enable the feature in Firefox.

Background Image on Google in Firefoxįor the time being there is no direct add-on you can install on Firefox to get back the background image. However I would suggest you to use a site like I mgur to host the image and then use the direct link in the extension. If you want to use a personal photo as a background, you can use the photos that you have uploaded on Picasa and are available publically. You can now select images from Flickr or give the direct URL of the image on the web to use. However, when you click on it this time the Chrome background image extension will open up. Now when you open your Google homepage you will again see the link, change background image at the bottom left corner of the screen. To get back the background image on Chrome, download and install Google Background Image extension from Chrome Web Store.

But today I will show you a simple workaround to get the background image back on almost all the modern day browsers (except Internet Explorer of course). If the chatter on the forums is anything to go by, a huge number of users are going to miss the Google custom background feature big time. If I am not wrong, most of us have the habit of using Google as our default browser’s homepage and decorate it with a custom background image. For what I can understand, the step was taken to streamline the searches but I just don’t understand how!

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