How To Move Location Of Google Bar In Android 8 Update

Installing the new Google Search bar with a hack

A quick and unproblematic hack can give you lot early access to the new Google navigation bar that the company has been rolling out this week. The new Google navigation bar promises a new drop-downwardly carte du jour of Google apps, better integration of Google+, and a color change from black to white. While Google promises the bar will roll out to most users by the end of the calendar week, all you have to do to get information technology correct now is make a few tweaks to one of your cookies from Google.

Editing cookies in Google.com

You'll need to install a Chrome Extension chosen Edit This Cookie, so unfortunately Firefox and IE users volition have to sit this one out. (Sorry guys. Merely hey, maybe this is a skilful time to attempt out Google'due south browser. Chrome but surpassed Firefox after all.) And so make your way over to Google.com and correct click anywhere on the page. Select "Edit Cookies." which helpfully has a cookie next to it, and you should pull up a page that looks like this:

Select the PREF cookie (the 2nd one down), and you should see a section in that location called "Value" that'south going to be filled with some seemingly random code. That code is what tells Google if you accept access to the new navigation bar or non.

We're going to modify the text in "Value" so Google gives you admission. Just delete whatever you accept in the value field and supplant it with: ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds

Then click "Submit Cookie Changes" at the bottom of the page. Later on reloading the Google homepage, you lot should take the new Google bar that should make the site look something similar this:

Google homepage with new Google Search bar

And then you tin can go forth and start lording it over your friends because you lot have Google's newest feature. We suggest using the new navigation bar's integration with Google+. Nosotros'd like to thank a Google+ user ourselves — Maximilian Majewski — who originally posted this tip on his Google+ page.

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