I clicked the change background image to reveal lots of images that I can use as the background for my homepage. Unfortunately, there is no option to remove the background image all together. The help section directs you to "Remove background image" in the bottom left, but there is no remove background image in the bottom left. Very Frustrating.
After a quick search on the interwebs, it became apparent I am not the only one who wants to remove their background, a quick search in google reveals over a million webpages for "google homepage remove background image". It appears to be bad coding by google to not provide the option to remove the picture. Surely they did not expect everyone to roll over and like their changes. They google labs everything for acceptance testing, but this one clearly got okayed by the yes men.
I could not have been the only person in the world who does not like change forced on me. Firefox did the same thing with their persona a while back, but they were kind enough to ask whether we wanted the change rather than forcing it on us; with no option to remove. What's worse, if you have no google account, you cannot even change or remove the background; you are stuck with what google gives you. "Do no evil" eh?
For now the only choice is to use the "From my computer" option and pick a white image (800x600 pixels minimum) to get a white background at least. I will update this post with info on how to successfully remove the background when more information becomes available, until then, suffer maggots!
UPDATE: Google has fixed the issue, by default, no images are displayed until you choose the change background image option from the bottom left. And removing it, correctly resets you to the default google homepage.
