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Google to Release Firefox Toolbar
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)."
How about other neat google goodies like Google Desktop Search and Picasa photo organizer ? Any guess if they would provide these utilities for *nix too.
Enabling pagerank allows Google to track every page you go to instead of just tracking searches and pages reached via searches. Collecting this information alone could easily make it worth their effort to create their own toolbar. /tinfoil
Ever since I stopped using IE because of the adware and spyware I can't completely get rid of, the one feature I miss from the Google toolbar is the in page form spell checker.
Yeah, because choice is a bad thing. Sheesh.
The lack of google toolbar was one of the things which kept me using IE for the longest time, until googlebar came along. If you think that search is all the google toolbar does, you really haven't used it.
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I'm sure Google would enjoy Firefox users not being left out of the PageRank system.
Personally, I would enjoy a Google search bar that's not on the order of 16 characters wide.
Looking at the screenshots, I don't see any difference in functionality. Only slight layout differences.
Is there a way to get the old Mozilla "Search xxxxx for xxxxx" in the URL bar in FF? That's about the only thing holding me back from jumping to FF.
Well, that and the anemic Preferences dialog.
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Yes, those damn DHTML overlay "popups" are becoming much more common, and they're not trivial to filter out either. Firefox & Privoxy can't block them (yet).
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I don't see the interest to install this. Firefox has almost (if not) all the features of that google bar: :)
- Search and highlight within a page
- Easy google,ebay,etc. search (using mycroft and its extensions)
- Popup blocker (which works even better in combination with adblock)
- Auto filling form fields
- Browsing by names, instead of URLs
Really, what's left? oh yeah, screen space lost for a useless bar full of existent features and colored O. Well, maybe I'll install it for the colorfull logo, since it fits well with my current theme but that's all!
GMail, Google weather, Google Maps, Google Groups... if you haven't tried these out yet, the only question you've to ask yourself is, "Why?"
Anyone notice that Firefox has been getting more popups lately?
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Meh. All of that and more can be done with Greasemonkey (scripts directory) (Internet Explorer implementation), without the added clutter of Yet Another Toolbar, and without the potential paranoia of a corporation behind it (referring to the crap storm when Google shipped Autolink in the IE toolbar). Greasemonkey is open source, developed by individuals, and each script is just javascript which you can easily inspect before choosing to install in case you're worried about a script "phoning home" to track your browsing. It's also better than bookmarklets because it runs the scripts automatically (you can tell it what urls to include or exclude, if you don't want a script running on every page).
Finally, once you've installed Greasemonkey or Turnabout (What? You don't already have them installed? For shame!), check out my sig for a script to remove Roland Piquepaille stories from Slashdot.
The prgooglebar can't be moved in the toolbars. For some, that's the difference between staying with IE and switching to Firefox. I know, because I've had people not switch because of this very thing.
We all know that means Red Hat 8.0+. Quit complaining, not everyone knows that much about linux.
Exactly, you really can't start harassing new people due to the spaghetti versioning system that Linux and it's associated distros all have. Redhat 9, Redhat Fedora Core 4, Debian 3, Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, Gnome 2, KDE 3. And to guaruntee any sort of compatibility or help, you need to know exactly what you're running.
I would have expected more from a Google employee to be honest, but maybe he worded it that way for all the laymen.
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I like the idea of the google toolbar, it brings some features that extend the functionality of the little google search-box that's default in firefox. On the other had, we got 83 search extentions for firefox at the moment. Will the google-bar just be another one in the list or will it actually bring something extra the others don't have..
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Except that find button isn't linked with what I just searched for, which really is nice.
Often I find myself searcing for a technical spec, or whatnot, and I want to get to the part that I JUST saw in the little google preview blurb, since I know that's what I need. This just saves me from having to do anything but click the word on the tollbar.
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Having read the ctrl-f comment below: You cannot ctrl-f highlight multiple words.
Having highlighting on a page from a search is nice, plus the PAGERANK is a useful tool in itself for web designers. I would be interested in this, although I loath to loose screen space.
How about have the Menu bar hideable?
I only ever use tools / extensions (page info being available on right click to get to media tab)
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Does anyone know if it will be licensed with a free (as in freedom) license?
The only reason they have 2GB of email is because of Google. All of their services are ad-infested and crappy. The search engine sucks. I can't think of a single reason one would use Yahoo other than inertia.
EarthLink launched a FireFox Toolbar "beta". It includes their Scamblocker anti-phishing tool. It's only Windows (says XP only but seems to work fine on my 2000 box).
> Google gets all the hype, yahoo gets no respect. I wonder why.
They attach ads to all your outbound emails. This alone drives me away. I've taken to blocking all of yahoo's ads because they're so damn huge and intrusive, but since it bugs me ethically to frequently use their service with ads blocked, I just don't use their service.
Yahoo's search is fine now, but they were leading the charge in "pay for placement" not two years ago. There's some interesting options like "save" and "block" in searches, but they appear to be no-ops. Seems to provide no value over google, really.
Their toolbar is bundled with completely inappropriate things like acrobat, and shoveled onto my machine like so much spyware.
I am no longer wasting my time with slashdot