How to Get Back Old School Google Toolbar On Your Browser?

All Google users, attention!! The old school Google toolbar is back on browsers but not officially. We used to have a dark toolbar on every Google homepage with links to Gmail, Orkut, YouTube, News and more on the left and our signed-in account on the right.

Yeah! I know Orkut is no more, but I was talking about those days pal!

The toolbar used to look like this,

The now-a-day toolbar looks like this,

We can still get back our lovable old school toolbar. I found it accidentally today when I was jamming with some of the URL extensions on the browsers.

So, I might not explain what’s going on internally as I have not studied yet that closely. For this time just enjoy the discovery(am I not eligible for a Noble Prize? Drumrolls at least, please).

To get back the old toolbar, go to Google.com and add the following URL extension to it in the address bar,

/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&biw=1366&bih=600&ech=1&psi=_AXJVP2bIaT3mQWHjYDQCQ.1422460412431.5&ei=_gXJVJK6FYHJmAWP4YCoCA&emsg=NCSR&noj=1

After adding, the whole Google URL would look something like this,

https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&biw=1366&bih=600&ech=1&psi=_AXJVP2bIaT3mQWHjYDQCQ.1422460412431.5&ei=_gXJVJK6FYHJmAWP4YCoCA&emsg=NCSR&noj=1

I love being old school, how to open it every time I open the browser?

Easy! Just go to your browser settings and add this up as a default page/homepage setting.

I have tested it on Chrome and Firefox and it works fine on them. I think there is no point of worrying about it working on IE, Isn’t it? It doesn’t work on it after all.

Hope you liked it!