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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. Linux 8.0?!? by nokilli · · Score: 5, Funny

    As per the email Google sent the GoogleBar guys.

    I knew being a Gentoo user would subject me to some delays while waiting for everything to compile, but this is ridiculous! 8.0!?! I'm still running 2.6.10!

    1. Re:Linux 8.0?!? by iabervon · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's just the kernel. You have to add the version numbers for the kernel, glibc, gcc, and firefox to get the Linux version. I'm at 8.12.16.1, for example, which seems to be sufficient.

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

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

    1. Re:That's great.... by Chowderbags · · Score: 5, Informative

      There's a highlighter built into the find. Press control+f, type your word, and click the highlight.

    2. Re:That's great.... by WARM3CH · · Score: 5, Informative
      Honestly, what does the Google toolbar offer that Firefox doesn't already have, or that isn't already adequately covered by another extension?
      Highlighting the search terms (no, it is not the same as / or control+F), Showing the page ranks, One click translation of the page, Backward links, Showing the google cache for the page. The other feature I really missed in Firefox was google bar's excellent AutoFill feature to fill the forms with a relatively very high accuracy and the option to fill specific fields only by typing a password (like credit card info...)
  3. Yahoo's firefox toolbar by DarkHelmet433 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case anybody's interested, yahoo's firefox toolbar has been around for a while. It worked out of the box for me on Linux and FreeBSD machines, including a 64-bit build of firefox for FreeBSD/amd64.
    http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox?fr=firefoxtoolbar

  4. 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.

  5. Re:Wait just a dog gone second by truckaxle · · Score: 5, Informative

    google toolbar has other features like Google Maps, Google Mail checker, Google Video, Google Desktop searching, Google Suggest, and website thumbnails(preview images) on the Google search results.

  6. Re:Huh? by The_Wilschon · · Score: 5, Informative

    There exists a google pagerank extension for firefox.

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    SIGSEGV caught, terminating

    wait... not that kind of sig.
  7. Re:WHAT?!? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who the fuck says "in-built"?

    Do I.

  8. 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.

  9. the power of google... by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill Gates: "Damn Google for stealing the last rational argument to stay with IE! Steve, get me my litigation hat!"
    Steve: *deep sigh* "I'm suing, I'm suing..."

  10. Re:Wait a second: by SirSlud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its like .. different people have differing opinions here! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

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    "Old man yells at systemd"