How can I get the Google Search menu back to the left side and see "total results" stats?

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I'm using Firefox. One week ago Google changed its design, moving the menu to the top:

That's fine with me, but I often need the "total results" stats, so I googled hard to change it back. No results.

Today I changed my browser and it displayed the good old design. Menu on the left, total results on its place.

I changed google.com to other languange (not .com) in FIrefox and it shows the old design again. So, only google.com has problems, not all Google versions. I also started Firefox in safe mode, nothing changed. So, it is not an add-on causing the problem.

What can it be? How can I move menu back to the left and see result stats?

Qiao

Posted 2012-09-13T12:44:09.497

Reputation: 359

2I used the exact same search within IE8 and the menu was on the left. It sounds like Google might have changed its layout for just Firefox. – Ramhound – 2012-09-13T12:47:48.297

I also use Firefox, and I cannot reproduce this result... – m4573r – 2012-09-13T12:53:15.120

2Try clearing your cache and see if that makes it go away – HackToHell – 2012-09-13T12:56:45.523

@m4573r - What version of firefox are you on? And what about you, Qiao? – SaintWacko – 2012-09-13T12:59:08.437

@SaintWacko 15.0.1. I have this problem neither on .com nor on any language specific version. – m4573r – 2012-09-13T13:00:36.550

@m4573r - I'm curious to see if you two have the same version. I'm on Chrome, and my menu is on the left still. And I just checked the desktop, which is running FF15.0, and it has it on the left. – SaintWacko – 2012-09-13T13:01:33.117

@slhck - I would make an argument it does make a difference considering I got search results when I spelled the word correctly that explained the problem. This was actually I changed Google pushed awhile ago. The reason I don't see it is because its not supported by IE8. – Ramhound – 2012-09-13T13:07:22.593

@SaintWacko, 15.0.1 also – Qiao – 2012-09-13T13:07:34.730

@Qiao - Hm, well, good thing the cache trick worked then :) – SaintWacko – 2012-09-13T13:10:43.760

Answers

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Please clear the firefox cache, it might have been corrupted.

See here for instructions

HackToHell

Posted 2012-09-13T12:44:09.497

Reputation: 6 162

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Obviously, Google is testing a new layout. This experimental layout takes the search options and moves them above the search results. Google already tried something very similar back in June. Since this is the way the search options are displayed on a tablet Google may well be trying to unify the looks.

JC2k8

Posted 2012-09-13T12:44:09.497

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