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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by juanita on Dec. 15, 2011 · permalink

What I found was that I don't always get the "null" search result, and when I do, if I open, or switch to, an empty tab for the active tab, it will work after all. This is still the best add-on for the job.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Globe199 on Dec. 13, 2011 · permalink

Image search broken. When you enter search words then click the image search icon (the half white/red canister, whatever that is), it appears to work, but then throws you to google.com with nothing there.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by PieOPah on Nov. 30, 2011 · permalink

I have used this toolbar for years and have previously edited it to work with each version of Firefox. Unfortunately, it appears that the manual search fundtion is now broken. Whilst I can highlight a word on the page and search for it, if I manually type a word/phrase into googlebar, when I search, it replaces the details with 'null' and searches on that term instead. A previously great add-on unfortunately rendered useless :-(

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by stevenvh on Nov. 10, 2011 · permalink

@Chummy57C

Do you get errors, or can't you install? If the latter you must have made a mistake with the patch. I'm running Googlebar 0.9.20.05 with Firefox 8.0 without problems. I'm using it all the time. Don't tell things which aren't true.

This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Chummy57C on Nov. 9, 2011 · permalink

Quote ~

Make it work for FF8
by stevenvh on November 8, 2011

To make Googlebar 0.9.20 work in Firefox 8:
1. Download the googlebar XPI
2. Open it with 7-Zip or another ZIP manager
3. Edit install.rdf and change the maxVersion value "8.*";
4. Save and let 7-Zip update the XPI
5. Drag and drop the file to Firefox
6. Restart Firefox
That's it.

Nope. Doesn't work. Googlebar is presently nonfunctional as it is incompatible with FF8 and cannot be made to be compatible using the above suggestion.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by butch350 on Oct. 24, 2011 · permalink

How do I get this thing gone?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Dolphin767 on Oct. 4, 2011 · permalink

Are you planning to update this to work with Firefox 7 or later?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by yaoziyuan on July 31, 2011 · permalink

Here is a modified version of Googlebar 0.9.20.05 where the ugly transparent-background popup menu is removed: http://www.mediafire.com/?dkdyclm7qyf8bn2

This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by swiftlytilting on June 20, 2011 · permalink

1. Download the XPI file to your hard drive (right click the download button and "save link as").
2. Change the XPI extension to ZIP
3. Unzip the file Install.rdf and open it in a text editor (notepad works)
4. Look for the line em:maxVersion>3.6.*</em:maxVersion and change it to em:maxVersion>4.5.*</em:maxVersion
5. Save the file and add it back to the ZIP
6. Rename the ZIP file back to XPI
7. Drag the XPI file into your Firefox browser window to install the add-on

this general procedure works for lots of add ons actually...

==== someone emailed me and asked me to add this ===

The Print button is broken. Google uses "books" instead of "print" now.

Involves updating a couple of lines in GooglebarOverlay.js

Changed URL "print.google" to "books.google"
and "/print?sourceid=..." to "?sourceid=..."

From (note two changes in this line):
searchURL = 'http://print.google.' + GB_USA_ONLY_DOMAIN + '/print?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=' + crit;
To:
http://books.google.' + GB_USA_ONLY_DOMAIN + '?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=' + crit;

and a similar, shorter line before that.

Also changed print.png to new image of a book (the icon Google uses) saved as 20x20 gif with white as transparent background, renamed as .png.
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