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Google "toolbar" has disappeared and "reader" has replaced it. How do I get my search bar back?

My google "toolbar" is gone. I updated some software, and now it has vanished. I have tried so many things, View>Customize, Restart Safari... none of it works. My toolbar was replaced with "Reader" I don't want reader, I want my toolbar back. Please someone help! Thank you.


-Michael

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 12:20 PM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2012 4:17 PM

That is just horrible! If I would have known that, I would not have upgraded it. How can they not be seperate??? What is Apple thinking? The google sidebar was much more convienent than this new Safari 6 is. I have been frustrated all afternoon becuase of this. I tried everything... I am really not happy! Apple, get your sh*t together!!

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Apr 8, 2014 9:29 PM in response to Noonan3

I agree with all this. There is no rationale about reducing "screen clutter" that makes sense; instead of a google search window, I have just as much screen space taken up with what are truly useless menu items: Suggested Sites and Web Slice Gallery. The Suggested Sites produces a list of sites I would not waste time clicking into, and I have no idea what a "Web Slice Gallery" is, and I don't really care, since it is obviously not important enough to explain its purpose. This is screen clutter I would like to remove.


Safari 6 has the same bugs as Safari 5; in Safari 5 on my IOS platform, when I used my finger to change the caret position, the keyboard locked up. I was told this was a JavaScript bug and I should demand that my ISP fix their WebMail system. What part of "Our implementation of JavaScript is defective" did I fail to understand? Why hasn't this bug been fixed? This is the Microsoft approach: "dazzle them with glitz and glamor, and it doesn't matter that it has all the same old bugs". How about a little less effort to fix problems that exist only in the fantasies of the designers and a little more effort in actually fixing the very real bugs that the users report?


This JavaScript bug impacts many Web sites I use, not just WebMail. In one of them, the caret disappears entirely after the first paragraph, as well as having the keyboard lockup problem.

Google "toolbar" has disappeared and "reader" has replaced it. How do I get my search bar back?

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