So if you haven't visited a page very recently, the New Tab page won't show you a thumbnail for it - rather, a "broken camera" icon. However, we did notice that when there's a page you don't want showing up in your most visited list, clicking on Edit thumbnails and clicking on the X that appears over that thumbnail not only takes the page off, but keeps it off.Īlso, the Toolbar's thumbnail images come from memory, not a recent read of the Web page contents. So it may take a few days for the feature to learn your habits and become truly useful. In our tests, we noticed that Google Toolbar is relying on its own list of "most visited" sites, which for the new user of version 5.0 will be the most visited since its own installation. Now, perhaps you were intending to type in a URL for some other site in that case, none of the rest of Firefox's functionality changes.
With Google Toolbar 5.0 installed in Firefox 3.0.5, the question is answered rather quickly: By default, the New Tab panel will show your most visited Web sites as thumbnails, and you click on a thumbnail to bring up that site. "While it's good to not intimidate with an explosion of information, we can get a much more streamlined workflow - thereby saving huge amounts of aggregate time - by showing something. Even Mozilla Labs' own engineer Aza Raskin isn't thrilled with this behavior: "While clean, it has a 100% probability of not getting you where what you want to be," Raskin wrote last August. In any event, one feature that most folks will agree is altogether impractical is the fact that a newly created tab shows up in Firefox completely blank. Okay, so maybe I'm not being too practical.
I need the room for my.most visited sites. But not everyone keeps the "Most Visited" button visible on his Links bar I certainly don't. Hopefully.Mozilla Firefox already keeps track of the Web sites a user visits most often. The few bugs that might show up with the GTB restored this way should be resolved with the installation of the next versions of the GTB. Actually, I did a reboot of my computer and now my GTB is showing up ok, but a simple restart of Firefox might have worked also, I guess. Once you've got the correct ''install.rdf'' file, change, like A.Joom says, the maxVersion from 4.0.* to 6.* and close it and save it and restart Firefox. You have to open (with notepad) each ''install.rdf'' file not easily identifiable to a particular app and find the one that has the ''Google Toolbar for Firefox'' line.
#GOOGLE TOOLBAR FOR FIREFOX 5.0 SOFTWARE#
Some ''install.rdf'' files will show up in folders easily identifiable to various software or apps, some not. and write ''install.rdf'' in the top search window and click on Search. For anyone with XP, best is to do a right click on ''C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla'' folder and click on Search. I had to do a bit of searching for the correct file since I have XP. Hopefully.Īnd ps: btw, francis_lucey, if you want to be pointy, your "voila" requires a grave accent on the a like so: "voilà". Once you've got the correct install.rdf file, change, like A.Joom says, the maxVersion from 4.0.* to 6.* and close it and save it and restart Firefox. You have to open (with notepad) each install.rdf file not easily identifiable to a particular app and find the one that has the Google Toolbar for Firefox line. Some install.rdf files will show up in folders easily identifiable to various software or apps, some not.
and write install.rdf in the top search window and click on Search. For anyone with XP, best is to do a right click on C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla folder and click on Search.