Problem with Google Toolbar for Firefox

May 30th, 2006 - 12:18 | 7 comments

I updated Google’s Firefox toolbar at the weekend, and Firefox promptly fell over with CPU usage at 23% and memory allocation continually increasing. Disabling the extension seems to have fixed it. Can’t guarantee it’s not my computer being weird, but if you’re a google toolbar user it might be worth waiting on the update. The problems I see are with toolbar version 2.0.20060515W.

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7 Responses to “Problem with Google Toolbar for Firefox”

1 Tom Williams May 30th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

I’ve never quite forgiven Google for the several hours I spent fixing my Dad’s PC after they released an automatic update for the IE toolbar that completely disabled his browser. Because he said he hadn’t updated the toolbar in months I disabled almost everything else on his system before figuring out what was causing the problem.
2 Ben May 30th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

I don’t know if I’m missing reams of functionality (I probably am…) but I use the experimental version on http://googlebar.mozdev.org/installation.html which is not an official Google thingy, as I’m sure is obvious….

…Anyway, it works
3 Ed May 30th, 2006 at 10:49 pm

What’s the point of the google toolbar?
4 Andrew May 30th, 2006 at 11:33 pm

Tom - ouch!

Ben - worth a look, thanks.

Ed - It lets you search images / desktop / groups etc. from the same box, as well as providing a form spell-checker, phishing warnings and autofill for forms. It’s surprising how often it comes in handy
5 Andrew May 30th, 2006 at 11:35 pm

Hmmm, the googlebar says it only works with firefox 1.0? Weird…
6 Ben May 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pm

The experimental version (0.9.15.08) is working fine on Firefox 1.5.0.3 for me. The stable version is too old for this version of firefox though…
7 Andrew May 31st, 2006 at 9:01 pm

Yep, that was me being stupid. 0.9.15.08 does indeed work ok.

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