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Google to Release Firefox Toolbar

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-toolbar dept.

daria42 writes "Google is about to release a Firefox version of its toolbar, according to an e-mail sent to developers of the open source GoogleBar project. The e-mail claims to have been sent by Google engineer Fritz Schneider and is dated 1 July. "It has pretty much the same features as the latest IE toolbar except of course for things like the popup blocker," the e-mail said (Pop-up blocking is an in-built feature of Firefox)."

3 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. That's great.... by SnoopJeDi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but really, I'm doing just fine setting Firefox's search box to use Google.

  2. Not Entirely As Advertised by NBarnes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pop-up blocking is an in-built feature of Firefox

    If only that were still true.... Sadly, the advertisers appear to be way ahead of the Mozilla devs on this one.

  3. Googlebar has several other merits. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Beyond the obvious search bar, Googlebar has a few other useful functions that the default Firefox one does not have, such as the ability to search within one site. Something I use a lot is the ability to quickly jump to and highlight the keywords you've just searched for by clicking them in the bar. It makes finding relevant info. on a long page much easier.