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mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 5:50 pm Post subject: Updating Firefox: what happened to Google Toolbar?
I've lost it. Good grief The doubts of the dyslectic agnostic: Is there a dog?

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 7:27 pm Post subject:
It's not compatible with Firefox 5 yet, I'm not updating until it is.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Updating Firefox: what happened to Google Toolbar?

mihto wrote:

I've lost it. Good grief

The doubts of the dyslectic agnostic: Is there a dog?

No, but there is Chrome.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 7:38 pm Post subject:
Apart from making absolutely certain that google have disturbing amounts of information about you what does the tool-bar actually do that a normal browser without it doesn't do?

Emyr

Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 210
Location: Down some dark dark stairs.

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 11:24 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Apart from making absolutely certain that google have disturbing amounts of information about you what does the tool-bar actually do that a normal browser without it doesn't do?

+1... Firefox has a perfectly good searchbox in the top right and there are plenty more plugins who do the useful stuff without the bloat.

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 11 9:29 pm Post subject:

Quick D.I.Y fix

"That's because the old installed version of googletoolbar has a file named install.rdf that declares the max supported version of firefox to be 4.0.

To fix this, just open the install.rdf file with notepad and change maxVersion from 4.0.* to 6.* (see the image i've also uploaded)

Now, in order to find the correct install.rdf file do the following:

Go to folder : C:\Users\[your user name here]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[sometext].default and search for the install.rdf file (im using windows 7)

Windows search will find many install.rdf files (one for each addon you have installed on firefox) so make sure that you find the install.rdf that has the line "Google Toolbar for Firefox" in it.

For this install.rdf file just rename the max version as stated above , restart firefox..and vualla! Google toolbar is back!"

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/837142#answer-202409

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 11 7:48 am Post subject:
What Sean and Emyr said. I'd never install a toolbar from google, yahoo or any other chancer. A.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 11 12:21 pm Post subject:

Emyr wrote:

Firefox has a perfectly good searchbox in the top right

You mean AVG Secure Search?

Emyr

Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 210
Location: Down some dark dark stairs.

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 11 5:26 pm Post subject:

Aeolienne wrote:

Emyr wrote:

Firefox has a perfectly good searchbox in the top right

You mean AVG Secure Search?

No, AVG will have put that there for you. If you click the down arrow in the searchbox, a list is presented with the option to configure the options. When you're focussed on the box (the caret indicates your typing would enter that box), pressing ctrl and up/down will select other items in the list.

My list usually contains Google, Wikipedia, eBay and Amazon in that order. I use the HTTPS Everywhere add-on from the EFF, so these searches reach the secure servers where available.

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