Google search expanding images vertically

[Falna]

Just spotted that, when using Google Search for a topic that returns images at the top, those images expand uncontrolled vertically...

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=New+York

Partial screen-shot:

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[BenFenner]

Quick check over here and I was unable to reproduce this.

[Kxeon]

Just spotted that, when using Google Search for a topic that returns images at the top, those images expand uncontrolled vertically...

Searching up Republika Srpska doesn't expand completely uncontrollably.
However I do remember they expanded like how you said before and took up the entire screen that one time. Unable to reproduce that.
I just use Whoogle nowadays. (I hope that what i just said doesn't age poorly)

[Falna]

Quick check over here and I was unable to reproduce this.

Still doing it for me in my regular setup + a clean version of PM Portable...

Searching up Republika Srpska doesn't expand completely uncontrollably.

...Yes, Republika Srpska expands then stops much sooner. I wonder if that's something to do with the speed of turnover of the images of the page:

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In your case it is expanding excessively, but stopping perhaps a little sooner than mine. Maybe linked to the PC spec?

How it looks in Chrome:

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[gepus]

Just spotted that, when using Google Search for a topic that returns images at the top, those images expand uncontrolled vertically...

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=New+York

Out of curiosity.
How about with: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&num=100&hl=en ?

[Falna]

Out of curiosity.
How about with: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&num=100&hl=en ?

Yes, for New york, adding num=100 to the search string (or restricting it to any other number of results) fixes it, by forcing a second column. That also works for many others - such as https://www.google.com/search?q=London&num=100
https://www.google.com/search?q=hong+kong&num=100 and
https://www.google.com/search?q=poland&num=100

However it doesn't work for Republika Srpska (though, as above, that was exhibiting somewhat different behavior).

[Kxeon]

Drats. I thought that the bug didn't work on my PC, but as it turns out, it does. I don't know what happened, probably because the images were on the right-hand side instead of the top, but they expand.
So it's just that thing at the top, ig.
Hmm.. I just used Inspect Element and found a variable on the expanding thingies. aria-atomic=true.
I have no idea what happens when you set it to false when the page is loading because I can't. Inspect Element doesn't load in time.

[Falna]

Hmm.. I just used Inspect Element and found a variable on the expanding thingies. aria-atomic=true.
I have no idea what happens when you set it to false when the page is loading because I can't. Inspect Element doesn't load in time.

Looks like aria-atomic is a flag for screen readers, so doubt that's the problem - https://www.holisticseo.digital/technic ... ria-atomic

[Kris_88]

Strange problem probably related to CSS "flex".

This seems to work:

userContent.css :

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@-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.google.com/search") { 
  div[role="complementary"] > div { flex: unset !important; }
}

[Falna]

This seems to work

Yes, that's a good workaround - thanks