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Yahoo! Releases Firefox version of Toolbar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the serious-sites-demand-toolbars dept.

kidlinux writes "Yahoo started offering a beta version of its toolbar for the open source browser Firefox on Microsoft Windows on Wednesday, with versions for Linux and MacOS X following 'shortly.' I think it's safe to say most people use Google in their Firefox toolbar search field. Yahoo probably wants to get their foot in the door before it's too late. It would be interesting if this was a result of user demand. And apparently this follows Amazon's Firefox toolbar, which actually is a result of user demand."

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  1. exactly what firefox users DON'T want by de1orean · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yup, i install an open-source, highly configurable browser and then install some creepy malbar that will hijack the whole goddamn thing.

    no thanks, yahoo. thanks for playing.

  2. Re:Why by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To me, the only useful thing Yahoo has to offer is Yahoo Groups, chiefly because in its pre-Yahoo phase (as Egroups), it was great and had really useful lists, and despite Yahoo royally f(*&%ing up this service since they bought it, it manages to continue to be okay.

    Other than that, Yahoo search/news/whatnot... all suck pond water from the bottom imho.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Re:Firefox good, Amazon evil? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An ongoing boycott of Amazon? You and who else?

    I guess him and all other Parkinson disease sufferers protesting against the one-click system...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  4. Re:Yawn by ColMustard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you only run software on your machine where the code is available for viewing. I suppose you have read all that source code for "bad stuff?" After each time the code is updated?

    You probably won't like this, but Yahoo (as a big business) has more to lose for having "bad stuff" in their code than any open source project does.

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    Moof.