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Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the standard-issue-plugins dept.

wellington map writes "Google has released Firefox search toolbar (Version 1.0.20050923) after two months in beta. One interesting addition is Google Suggest, which guesses what you're typing and offers useful suggestions in real time."

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  1. Worth noting.. by footissimo · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..that google suggest is available as a seperate extension (and is quite useful)

  2. Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. by job0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can fix this but at your own risk, the extensions will load but they might not be compatible with the changes in that version of firefox. All extensions have a file called install.rdf. There is a section called maxVersion that Firefox checks to see if it should enable or disable the extension. If maxVersion is lower than the current version, then Firefox automatically disables the extension because it considers it to be incompatible.

    To modify install.rdf do the following

    1. Close Firefox
    2. Open %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
    3. Delete extensions.rdf
    4. Go to the extensions folder.
    5. Now you'll have to go to every folder there and edit its install.rdf file with a texteditor such as notepad.
    6. You will see something like this:
    CODE
    <em:targetApplication>
        <Description>
          <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em :id>
          <em:minVersion>0.8</em:minVersion>
          <em:maxVersion>1.0+</em:maxVersion>
        </Description>
      </em:targetApplication>
    Change maxVersion to 1.4, save the install.rdf.

  3. Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Install the Nightly Tester Tools extension and it will work just fine.

    ~jeff