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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.
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.
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).
Power to the Peaceful
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!
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.
Clones are people two.
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)
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
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.
> 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