Enable Google Toolbar in Firefox 5 and Firefox 6

Firefox released the Firefox 6 recently. Since it is a major version upgrade, some of the Plugins, Add-ons and Extensions went incompatible. Google Toolbar for Firefox is one of them.

Google Toolbar is one of my favorite extensions for Firefox, and I frequently use it for bookmarking pages. However, since my Firefox automatically upgraded to version 6, the Google Toolbar vanished from its place.I wanted Google Toolbar to compatible with Firefox 5 and Firefox 6.I found a solution for that after few Google search sessions. It is now working perfectly like before and all the features are kept. Here is my solution.

Steps:

• Check the current version of Google toolbar. It should be 7.1.20110512W.Type about:addons at the Firefox address bar and hit enter. Select the Extensions tab from the left. Check the version number for Google Toolbar for Firefox
• Go to your Firefox Profiles at AppData >Roaming > Mozilla> Firefox > Profiles > Default Profile > Extensions and look for the directory where the Google Toolbar is installed.
• There should be a file called install.rdf in that folder. Open it in Notepad.
• Now you need to change the maxversion to 6. Find this line

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

and change it to

<em:maxVersion>6.0.*</em:maxVersion>

• Save the file and close the editor
• Restart the Firefox and the Google Toolbar should be showing up with Firefox 5/Firefox 6.

Now Google Toolbar should work will all its features…