If you haven’t heard, Google is continuing its simplification of its services by getting rid of the black bar at the top of your Google pages. The black bar is being replaced with the Google bar, which features a drop-down menu of all Google services from the Google logo, and a simplified Google+/sharing feature.
As with most new Google products, the company is slowly rolling Google bar out to users, but Chrome users can jump to the head of the line by following these simple directions.
- Install the Edit This Cookie chrome extension.
- Go to Google.com, right click anywhere on the page and select “Edit Cookies.”
- Expand the “PREF” tab, delete its current value, and paste this into the “Value box:
ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:
TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds(That’s one continuous line – it’s broken into two here to fit the column.)
- Click “Submit Cookie Changes” at the bottom of the page.
- Refresh Google.
You can now uninstall the “Edit This Cookie” if you no longer need it.
Enjoy the new Google bar!
This is both street smart and ientillgent.
Putting the code into Notepad and making sure it is on one line worked. Thanks!
For those that can not get it to work. Make sure the line you are pasting is 1 line. If you just copy and paste it from the website, it does not work because it’s broke into two lines.
Got it!! Thanks Ludo!
You need to be editing the value in “PREFS” not “SID.” Your cookie editor will default to the dropdown for SID. Just scan the “boxes” above and click on “PREFS” and it will open the menu you need to edit.
It works.
Mine doesn’t work either, tried several times now exactly to the “T”
The “important stuff is on the top left” thing stems less from print and more from how English-speakers read. It’s anglophile-centric, but since English documents are read from the top in a left-to-right fashion, that’s where web designers try to put the navigation and ID stuff.
That bar looks nice, but it did not work for me. I’m on OS X Lion using Rockmelt (a Chrome based browser).
Doesn’t work. Google just asks me to log in and after I do that, I have the black bar again. :-/
@dusanmal: Read your post again and tell me what the heck your problem is? Especially your argument about lefties/righties on desktop systems…
Have Web’ been developed by lefties (I mean in terms of major hand side usage)? My browser scroll bar on PC is on the right, my major hand on mobile platform is on the right… Why (but for the print legacy which should be irrelevant) Web designers keep stuffing major interaction points to the left and up? Just venting (e-tu-Google – they at least kept centered interaction point for the while)…
@dusanmal The “print legacy” is not irrelevant. In the west we read from left to right, therefore when designing a user interface, it is only natural for us to place items of importance from left to right. The top left corner of the screen is the first place that your eye rests on. That being said, I kinda like the black bar on the top..was just getting use to having it and Google is changing again =\
The expertise shines thrguoh. Thanks for taking the time to answer.