New tabs created with + not useable or closing. Google toolbar interaction!

Using FF25.0 If I create a new tab by middle clicking on a link on a displayed page it works fine. but if I click on the + at the end of the tab bar then select it and type an URL in: Nothing! And the tab then sometimes has no closing cross, even if the cross is there it will not close.
If I disable GoogleToolbar the problem goes away. But I need to use GoogleToolbar. I think I've tried all the recommended alternatives but none come close enough to giving me what Google Toolbar does.
I know Google Toolbar is not supported by Google anymore but if I'm not to be pushed into using Chrome then FireFox needs to support it. I realise it might not be technically easy but I doubt it is beyond the skills of the software engineers. So why not support it?
I've had to resort to FF21. Unless I hear FF is modified in the next few months to accommodate GoogleToolBar I will have to go to Chrome. Yes I am aware of the security issues of using an old copy, if I wasn't I'd not bother making this post and continue indefinitely with FF21!

I know it is common for projects and products like this to have resources allocated for new shiny gimmicky features. But that isn't what I think most users want. Products that end up with key features unusable just drive users away.
Google are unlikely to ever restart support for their toolbar, so:
I would have thought mozilla would have the resources to support the missing features. In particular storing the bookmarks in the cloud so that users can access them on any computer/phone etc. Storing this sort of information in the cloud is a very in thing to do!

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