Google Toolbar & Firefox 3.5 , Firefox 3.5 mouse over problem

July 2nd, 2009 by Girish | Posted under Tips & Tools. 1,178 views

Google Toolbar & Firefox 3.5 , Firefox 3.5 mouse over problem (9 votes, average: 4.56out of 5)
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I had a weird problem after upgrading my Firefox to 3.5 , mouse over was not working , instead just a small rectangle appears below the mouse cursor , It was too irritating and even think about ways to downgrade to my earlier version.

After a little search I could find the root cause of this , culprit was none other than google toolbar for Firefox. Now I just disabled my google toolbar add-on from tools –> add-ons and waiting for an update for new toolbar which may fix this issue.

If any one of you face similar issue try loading Firefox in safe mode , if it works fine then surely  it should be some problem with addons

You can start Firefox on safe mode by running this command (windows)

Start –> run –> firefox -safe-mode
or
Start –> Programs –>  Mozilla Firefox –> Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)

How to disable Add-ons on Firefox

Useful Links

Mozilla Support

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Comments

1. Tony W says:

   July 3, 2009 at 11:59 am

   Check what version of the google toolbar you have.
   I just manually upgraded my toolbar and it works again

   The latest version is Google Toolbar 5.0.20090324
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6249#reviews

   For some reason it does not get picked up for by update checks from firefox

   I love my addon toolbar as it allows me to pop results into new tab (ctrl+enter) or a new window (shift+enter)

   HTH
   T
2. Adi says:

   July 5, 2009 at 4:06 am

   Thanks for the ‘complex’ solution!
3. doomzmaster says:

   July 7, 2009 at 4:09 am

   Thanks for this fix guys.
4. Branev says:

   July 12, 2009 at 10:41 pm

   Hello,

   Just go to the official site and update:) This is the best solution.
5. Susan says:

   July 30, 2009 at 4:56 pm

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6. nggakingat says:

   August 13, 2009 at 5:24 am

   When upgrading to Firefox 3.5, my Google Toolbar version was 5.0.20090122Wb2. It gave the annoying mouse over problem in Firefox 3.5. And worse still, I cannot use the About button in the toolbar. Neither was Options button. So I got the version number from Tools-Addons-Extensions in Firefox.

   After reading this article, I went to Google Toolbar’s home page http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/FT5/intl/en/index.html
   and re-download & install the available version. Upon successful installation, it restarted Firefox. The Google Toolbar version is now 5.0.20090805W.

   And the mouse over works perfectly.
7. Girish says:

   August 17, 2009 at 8:57 am

   Thanks for the info