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How to get the new Google Bar right now in Firefox [Updated]

You already learned about Google ditching the black bar throughout its services and in a previous How-To article you also learned how to get the new Google Bar in Chrome with an extension. Now it is the time to get rid of the black bar and bring the new Google Bar in Firefox. Don’t forget to check our previous article, New Google Bar? That’s right and say goodbye to the black strip, to get all the details of the new Google redesign.

The process is simple and painless, just follow these easy steps:

1 While in Firefox, use this shortcut Ctrl+Shift+K to open the Web Console.

2 Type or cut and paste the following code:

document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();

New Google Bar - Cookie Firefox

3 Press Enter and refresh Google.com. Don’t forget to close the Web Console.

That’s it! You should now be seeing the new Google Bar.

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  • David Robinow


    [11:19:33.595] document.cookie=”PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2: TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; domain=.google.com; path=/; exprie=” + (new Date(“2013-12-1″)).toUTCString()
    [11:19:33.611] SyntaxError: illegal character

    Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3
    Firefox 8.0

    • mhweb

      Thank you for the feedback this cookie expired. I just updated the the article try one more time with the new line of code above.

      just in case here is: document.cookie=”PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com”;window.location.reload();

      Thanks,

      • David Robinow

        That just worked for me on Vista. I’m away from my XP machine now. I just noticed, however, that Firefox converted the quotes (“) to smart quotes (
        “ 
        ”, open and close).  On my Vista machine I copied from Chrome and pasted into Firefox. I’m guessing that was the problem.

        • mhweb

          You are exactly that was the problem, but also the code I had before for some reason today was showing up as expired, now this new code is good!

          Thanks again for the feedback, have a good one!