Guys,
Just today, I started having an issue with the Google homepage on the Avast Browser. Right off the bat, let me first say that I am using Windows XP. I know, I know. I simply just can't update my OS. It's been rough, the last few years, but it's all I can use, right now. Please forgive me.................(seriously)
Getting back to the issue at hand : last night, all was well. This afternoon, my Google homepage changed, lost it's dark mode, and now resembles the Google homepage of the old IE days. The same has happened to Google Images. However, Gmail, New Tab, and Translate seem fine, as well as every other site I checked on. Oh, and on my mobile, everything is working properly.
At first, I thought it might be an Avast issue, but I see it is also happening on my regular Chrome browser, as well as my Vivaldi and Firefox browsers. I thought perhaps it is a Google issue, and it may just be, but I'm starting to get that dread feeling in my gut that it is not.
I see also that now Facebook is having issues, for me, too. I then wondered if this was due to the 'Safe Internet Day', it was today, that both Google and Facebook promoted ? That maybe this was some sort of reaction to 'celebrate' this particular day ? I don't know. I'm grasping at straws, but I'm trying to make sense of this.
I did run a scan of Avast, and nothing wrong turned up. No viruses or any other issues.
So, I was wondering if anyone else has seen this issue today ?
The bottom of the Google pages do not show the 'settings' options they used to have before, so I can't even try to put the dark mode back on. It's just very weird.
Is this just an inevitable result of an XP general meltdown, or can this be fixed somehow, and it is more of a Google issue, as opposed to an XP problem ?
ANY help or advice anyone can give me, is truly appreciated.
If anyone is still using XP, do you have the same issues ?
Thanks in advance for your time,
Gary