Google 2009 theme

Theme Google (XHTML Mobile version) to look like 2009 Google

How to activate XHTML Mobile version of Google?

Use the following user agent for Google: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

How do I change my user agent?

On Firefox(-based) browsers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher
On Chromium(-based) browsers, there is a similar addon if you look it up.
Make sure to set it up that the user agent only applies to Google!

How do I make it only apply on Google and how do I even use the extension? (Firefox)

Click the extension's icon ( ) then on userAgent put the useragent above (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)), press enter then click Options. Check the ratiobox "White-List Mode" and put "www.google.com" inside it. Scroll down and click "Save". Right click the extension's icon ( ) and then click "Switch to "white-list" mode". It should change the user agent.

Recommended

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me-google1/
This is to prevent from sites thinking you are visiting on Windows CE (because of Google's tracking redirect)

How do I use this?

Apply the user agent for Google above and use a extension (like Stylus) to apply it. If you are on Firefox, you can use UserContent.css.

Warning

Code is really messy.

Screenshots

Homepage

Search page
Preferences page (far from done) Not skinned anymore since the preferences page got updated.

References used

https://oldgoogle.neocities.org/2009
http://web.archive.org/web/20090901000000*/www.google.com

NsFAQ

Does this work with other languages?
Yes, however RTL languages seem to break a bit.

Why?
Why not?

The theme is broken. Please fix it.
Report the issue on GitHub issues.