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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)."

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  1. Redundant? by saskboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Shouldn't google get a Redundant -1 mod for this toolbar since you have the Google multifuntion search bar in the corner of every Firefox window anyway?

    I smell spyware...

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  2. Re:Linux 8.0?!? by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Maybe they meant 2.8.X?

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  3. Re:pagerank by hazzey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is the Google Page Rank Status extension that does the page rank. I don't have the link at the moment, but of course a google search will find it

  4. Re:Huh? by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not exactly the same, but the Find-function (Ctrl+F) in Firefox, also highlights the words on-the-fly while you type it.

  5. Re:WHAT?!? by ceeam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Off fuck, Yoda.