The Way To Enable Google Toolbar in Firefox 5 To 10

Firefox 10 is the upcoming version will be release in 2012. It is based on Geeko 10.0 and currently in developer stage. The below guide will also work for Firefox 10.

My aim to help those who want to make Google Toolbar compatible with all the latest Firefox versions released so far i.e. Mozilla Firefox 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. This trick will work for all Firefox version 5 and + .

Today’s Firefox is the preferred browser for most of the people atleast webmasters as well developer. Since it is a major version upgrade, some of the Addons, Plugins, and Extensions went incompatible such as Google Toolbar.

Google Toolbar is also a most preferred firefo addon/ extension by webmasters. As a webmaster, I also commonly use it for checking page rank, backlinks, actual links and indexed pages. However, since my Firefox updated to version 9.0.1, the Google Toolbar vanished from its position.

After going deeply and searching a lot of solutions over the net. In the last I found solution to make the Google Toolbar compatible with all new Firefox versions after Firefox 5 to Firefox 10. Now my Google toolbar is working properly like before with all the features. Now you can also do it by following steps: -

1. First, check the current version of Google toolbar. Go to addons of the Firefox. Scroll you page from up to down till Google toolbar shown. Check the version number for Google Toolbar for Firefox. It should be Version 7.1.20110512W, the latest version of Google Toolbar.

2. Go to your Firefox Profiles. Now question is how to go in profile. Simple

o   At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button, go over to the Help menu (on Windows XP, click on the Help menu) and select Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.

o   Under the Application Basics section, click on Open Containing Folder. A window with your profile files will open.

OR

Type about:support at the Firefox address bar and hit enter.

In Extensions, look for the directory where the Google Toolbar is installed with Id. Mine Id is {3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c} and should be also yours.

3. Click on Open Containing Directory or Just copy and paste AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\w80eyw92.default in C:\Users\...

4. Click on Extensions folder and then click on {3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c} ( this is Google Toolbar Folder).

5. There should be a file called install.rdf in that folder. Open it in a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++ (free and open source).

6. Now you need to change the maxversion to 10. Find this line

<em:maxVersion>4.0.*</em:maxVersion>

and change it to

<em:maxVersion>10.*</em:maxVersion>

7. Save the file and close the editor.

8. Restart the Firefox and the Google Toolbar should be back and working with firefox 5 or firefox 6 or firefox 7 or firefox 8 or firefox 9 or Firefox 10.

Try it and let me know if that worked or not for you. Also, make sure your addons are set to upgrade automatically so that you get the officially compatible version when Google release the upgrade.