Get back your old winter season theme, don't let them take it away from you!

Dec 10, 2007 09:49 GMT  ·  By

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way/ Oh, what fun it is to have a Spring iGoogle Theme, instead of a winter one this time of year! Um, yes, it might not rhyme, but it's a lot closer to the way my Google holiday mood is getting at. Annoyance at its finest hour. Why, why would you consider launching a winter theme in March and then replace it with a spring one? Where's the logic in that?

For you, iGoogle theme enthusiasts, this should be a memory of a time long ago before there was water and land and Google said "let there be a Winter Scape theme" and it was so. And then Google looked upon its work and was not happy with it because winter had just passed. "Missed by an inch," The Great Search Engine must have thought and instantly set things right, by removing it and placing instead a theme of joyous rebirth and green and so on, dubbed "Seasonal Scape".

Well, months passed and The Great Google did nothing to change things back, although it was the case. Soooo, if you still want that special holiday feeling whenever you are walking down your iGoogle scroll bar, all you have to do is copy the following JavaScript code

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javascript:_dlsetp('preview_skin=skins/winterscape.xml');void(0);
Then, go to you iGoogle, paste it into your address bar, press Enter and click on the "Save" button in "Select a theme for this tab" in order to keep it. This comes via Ionut Alex. Chitu's googlesystem blog.

Some of the more fanatic Firefox users might have second thoughts about this whole operation, as it was reported to not work all that well for Firefox 2. Instead, if they use Internet Explorer for the job and then only refresh, it should be there. Happy Snowman watching!