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Google Toolbar for Firefox Released
fizz writes "Google has released their toolbar, available in 10 languages for the Firefox browser, and available for 3 operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux). You can download it from the Google Toolbar homepage, and you can read the Google Blog for more information." Reported on recently here on Slashdot.
But I think I speak for everyone on Slashdot when I ask when is Microsoft going to release the MSN Toolbar for Firefox?
So now there is something to see there, an error message. 404 Page Not Found, LIARS!
Since the article earlier today said they were "about to" release the toolbar.
This is actually NOT a dupe. It was due to be released, and now has been. Is that why the sympathy?
Chow?
The only problem I have with it is the doube google search box.
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It works on Linux, even on PPC ones. Finally, google released a product for Linux users.
Does this mean that Google is going to migrate some more of their products from Google Labs http://labs.google.com/ on linux now?
I just installed in on Firefox 1.02 on Mandriva 2005 LE and it works great. I like it much better than googlebar.
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Will this tool bar replace the default Firefox Google homepage? Sponsorship is what it's all about, after all, no? Do you really think that Firefox developers will tolerate such redundancy? My bet is on the discontinuation of the homepage paired with a default Google Toolbar installation.
Nice one guys.
Does anyone have suggestions for other toolbars that are useful that work in Firefox? I am sure auto-complete is just scratching the surface. ( That's really all I use the google toolbar for anyway...in IE)
Its a linux/windows browser. It probably has more windows users, but a higher linux market %...
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Whats this toolbar.google.com is /.'ed? How ironic!
Get slashdotted... Don't they have like mega bandwidth available? It took almost a minute for the page to load up. Got the toolbar though, will try it out next... Raydude
When will it be released for Opera? You can search Google from Opera, but it doesn't have the highlighter and collapsable tree function that the toolbar has.
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Actually, I find the "other Firefox extensions" link almost more interesting. The Google Suggest extension looks pretty darn slick.
does this work with seamonkey? or will i have to keep with googlebar?
But does it work on IE?
Google Slashdotted.
What does your Credit Report look like?
I think there's a FreeBSD port of it out, too.
:D
My BeOS partition uses it, so it must have a high percentage of that market as well.
The only useful functions I found of the toolbar were popup blocking and Google search. Since both of those are built-in to Firefox (and improved upon with extensions), why bother?
I know Google tracks and logs every search query by IP address, but it's these persistent session pieces like the GMail cookies, "Personalized results" etc, that I find scarier. And what's more, a large number of people tend to use their full names as Email IDs (moreso for an attractive email service like GMail, which can be used as a formal email account for most purposes), which gives Google a way to directly map People Names to Google Searches.
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I do not see enough features in the toolbar to let it occupy 25% (ok maybe less) of my browsers tool space.
Good! The one for Firefox is here. Let's demand one for Konqueror. Google should realize that Konqueror is the *default* browser for many KDE centric Linux systems that have KDE installed by default....only if the Konqueror programmers could first fix the sometimes insane toolbars!
Google should just CNAME pr.google.com to slashdot.org
Hey, how to you change the language settings on this thing? I don't speak no Deutsch!
Now we can have 2 Google toolbars in FF. One from the previous /. article and this one.
You can't handle the truth.
I have it installed in my firefox in gentoo... is there any way to move the darn thing? It takes up a lot of real estate, I'd like to get rid of most of the buttons and move it to where the google search that comes with firefox used to reside.
Personally I don't like it. My own "homebrew" google toolbar consists of: 1) Firefox search bar set to Google 2) Advanced Highlighter Button 1.51 3) Translate 0.6.0.7 4) SearchWP 0.4.3.2 Then I use a Firefox hack I read about somewhere that allows the search bar to automatically stretch to meet the size available. As I type in words into the search, my search terms are put into the toolbar for one click searching, and my toolbar automatically shrinks to make room. Sorry this was completely unnecessary but I'm a proud Firefox user! Customization rocks!
When I was first thinking about converting to Firefox I remember that Google's toolbar was the "killer app" that initially kept me from switching over. Then I realized that I could do pretty much everything I could do using Google's IE-only toolbar using Firefox extensions and its built-in capabilities.
For example, for instant Google searches, Firefox allows you to create Keyword Searches in which you can just type in, in my case, "g <search query>" in the URL bar. Or for Wikipedia it is "w <search query>". For word highlighting you can just use Firefox's search functionality. And finally, for AutoFill you can use the AutoFill extension (which ends up being better than Google's anyway IMO).
So basically, Firefox has rendered the Google toolbar pretty useless to me.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
No really, who *needs* this?
I'm just asking because I use Gaymen....
heh, one good thing comes out of this. i got a screenshot of /.'s mainpage with 2 different descriptions of this :D shit, am i posting on the wrong one?
I recently switched to Firefox because my ISP told me it would make my computer faster (something to do with the Internet breaking my computer?) I will tell you that this new Firefox VPN doesn't have the popups that Microsoft's Internet had, but I miss the search bars. It is good that Google ported their searchbar from the Internet to Firefox because before I had to use the Internet to do my search, then quickly close it before hackers could get in. I think it would help the tech community alot if more companies would port their Internet searchbars to this new Firefox VPN. I miss the porn searchbars I could use when I used the Internet to explore. Does anyone know of any other searchbars for this new Firefox? I can't to try tabbed searchbars in Firefox.
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WTF, you want to wipe out their logs before the FBI can get there ?
The only thing this toolbar does that Firefox doesn't already is give pagerank- But there's a great site that'll let you do all this anyway. Otherwise, I recommend looking at open source Firefox extensions and YubNub.com (which integrates beautifully into firefox) for your enhancement needs!
Now I can replace the built-in Mozilla search facility with a new, Google approved model that will "anonymously" monitor my browsing habits.
Great!
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Why would I install this toolbar when I have instant search access to google built in to Firefox already?
Obviously the google toolbar offers a few bells and whistles, but I'll never use them. I just want to search.
So, the Google toolbar for IE makes sense, this one not so much.
Am I missing something?
Are those bells and whistles something worth sacrificing half an inch of screen real estate?
Now if someone could only tell how to get #$@$fox to install on my NT4SP6a box. Starts, confirms install file's CRC OK exits. Period. No messages. No errors. Nothing in log file other than install file crc OK. Same will all versions 1.00-1.04. If i just run the ff.exe form the 1.01 zip, it runs. Try the built-in upgrade - no dice (same thing). Nice. FF on-line forums useless and serach capabilities pathetic.
I'm a software developer with 20 yeras experience, so don't please don't give me any "didya try re-booting", admin priveleges, disk space... type suggestions.
But I can use the Yahoo Toolbar on any platform that firefox runs on (any *BSD, solaris, etc). Because they had the smarts to write it in XUL (?) or what ever the native mozilla toolkit/extention language is.
I dont know....
Remember the 'Deep Impact'? Yes, it has been on slashdot. But what do you feel if you reading hourly coverage of the position of the probe towards the comet? Yes, technically these are not dupes, as the spatial position of the probe changes. But I really want to see if there is one day slashdot is full of something like hourly coverage of the same things.
Maybe someone want the test the strength of google servers and bandwidth?
There will be not sodding logs, and actually taking down the server is the best way to make sure that the logs don't get deleted.
I've a damned sight more faith in the bloody mindedness of the Slashdot community if mobilised to take down these sites on a regular basis than I have in the "intelligence" agencies in tracking people down via the sites. There are probably more people who speak arabic reading Slashdot than there are terrorists in the world, lets fuck the bastards using the technology we know how.
And I speak as someone who massively opposes the death penality, the war in Iraq, Camp X-Ray and the rest, but who has ALWAYS thought that the best attack against these terrorists is to pull the rug out from their feet and then LAUGH as the fuckers fall over.
They use the internet... We KNOW the internet, lets get ourselves a server based lynch mob.
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Just to ensure that comments on dupes do not get duped, please refer to Zonk's previous dupe (which was but a few hours earlier): ahref=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07 /07/1351258&tid=123&tid=193&tid=158http://yro.slas hdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/07/1351258&tid=123&t id=193&tid=158>
Is this an official google toolbar? I use the open source googlebar http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html. I wonder how long before google flexes legal muscle to shut down googlebar. I recall previously that the google legal team forced googlebar to change their logo so as to not dilute the google brand. I recall reading the legal agreement and there was wording about google being able to change their minds in the future if they release their own product.
So when are they releasing the Google bar for life.
D/L it right in to your head
Gives you a nice HUD
You can access maps to places as you wander around.
Thinking about getting a hotdog?
Google bar for life will highlight the nearest hotdog stands for you!
not only that but you can donate unused brain power to science (i think every politician needs that feature soooo much wasted brain power)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
"All your bar are belong to us" :)
*ducks*
is it me, or does this turn your browser's default language to German?
Anyone know why the google toolbar doesn't get blocked on install, even though toolbar.google.com is not in my whitelist?
ok, lets check it.
(note: i have not tried it, i have only looked at the features list)
- autolink: its US only, hence useless for... how many percent of the internet?
- word translator: kdict. 'nuff said.
- address bar browse by name: IE only. pretty stupid, too. 'nuff said.
- pop up blocker: IE only. not really needed on a linux box where firefox runs behind a privoxy proxy anyways...
- autofill: doesn't firefox have something like that anyways? besides, I don't like the idea of automagically entering my credit card data into forms without asking me first.
- spellcheck: now thats a good idea. but konqueror does it already...
- pagerank: well... i dunno if someone else's algorythms should decide if "a page is worth my time", especially if i find the top google results are hijacked by "search optimized" junk most of the time.
- hilight search terms: not bad, but see above.
- word find: another feature that's already implemented in any browser i've seen so far.
to sum it up: not for me. especially not on a laptop that can't go higher than 1024x768. not for features that I either don't need, or already have in my browser.
Every time you start it up after installation of the extension it crashes. Sent bug reports to both Apple and Firefox talkback, now to find a feedback address for google.
Had to manually remove it from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/... to make it work again.
Google needs to hire a better test department.
Google Search -- integrated
AutoLink -- US use only; most stuff don't work outside US, and even then a limited usefulness
WordTranslator -- limited use; only useful if you must understand e.g. a french site, and even if you do, there are non-toolbar extensions for this
Pop-up blocker -- integrated
AutoFill -- as far as I can see, Firefox' form saving system works well enough here
SpellCheck -- useful!
PageRank -- why should I have a use for it? diagnosing rank issues with my own sites? seems like highly limited use
Highlight search terms -- integrated
Word find -- integrated
An entirely new toolbar for this? Hmm... I can get the spell checking elsewhere without one, and besides that, it seems a bit much.
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The extension I just removed before installing google toolbar had a few more features, the most useful of which is the EDU search. The official google toolbar doesn't seem to have this.
"Reported on recently here on Slashdot."
Meaning that the original story is still on the front page. I love being able to see a story about something's eventual release on the same page as the story about the thing's actual release.
is the autolink to google maps. Since I can't customize the toolbar, I am uninstalling it now. - I don't care about having a google searchbar, thats what the addressbar in firefox is for (just type "google computer store" to search for "computer store"). - I certainly don't need a button to search for news on google. How often would you use that? - Spell check could be useful, but do I really need a button for the few times I would use it? - Do I really need an options button? Couldn't that be a menu or something? Basically, I hate having buttons that take up real estate when I am hardly going to use them. Why can't this toolbar be "customized"?
They can use it to search for dupes.
Can google not pay some testers to release product quality
software?
oops! I forgot the smart ph.d's they hire never test software.
Reasons that I ever used the Google Toolbar in IE include ad-blocking and quick google searching. Both of those are included with Firefox, so I never had a need for the toolbar again. What I find cool is that although I personally do not have a need or a desire for the toolbar, others are now recognizing and supporting software for open source projects. It's nice to see that others besides us geeks view Firefox as a real and serious alternative rather than treating web browsing as the IP of Microsoft.
Get some.
It's horrible on OS X, man.
of the unoffical toolbar, which was the ability to view cached copies of pages and other google related stuff when you right click a link.
:)) from a link.
Ive used that a number of times when i get a 404 (or slashdot
The toolbar its self is a better design however.
there's already a google search box in firefox, isn't that a bit redundant?
Cool, but does it run on a GPU? ;)
The translate function really needs more languages, and needs to be able to look up words from foriegn languages into your native language (e.g., Japanese to English).
My other first post is car post.
The two main things I liked about the IE google toolbar, quick access to the Google cache of the visited page, and a list of referring links to the current page, aren't in the Firefox toolbar. Without those, it provides no benefit to me -- I could already search Google from the Firefox search tool. Uninstalling.
One reason to use the toolbar is to have everyone you know install it and surf your site, thus sending back info to Google that people visit your site. Also have those same people search on your keywords and then click through to your site.
Now tell me where I can get the source code, and then I will be excited.
So why does the darn thing tell me that I need Firefox 1.0 or greater to install? Last time I checked, 1.0.4 was greated than 1.0.
[by the way the Mac of the time, while far more secure than the windows of the time, certainly had its share of problems. The autostart worm was a particularly nasty one that I was lucky enough never to get bit by. ]
Will this Firefox port work with Mozilla? Or do I have to wait for a Mozilla port?
:)
Thanks in advance.
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The homebred Google toolbar is already far behind with PRGoogleBar ( http://www.prgooglebar.org/ ) out , a successor of the GoogleBar project.
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I'm using the googlebar extension for FireFox and it is far better. When it comes to the Auto Fill function, I've found the Autofill extension is better than the auto fill in the new google toolbar for FireFox which doesn't let me put in credit card information like they do in IE.
I think I'll wait for the next version of this tool.
Though the Google toolbar carries a certain weight behind it at this point, it is Google releasing it, it doesnt really fill any true needs. Its beauty was in that it was a free beautifully working pop up blocker that could do search without needing to go to google.com. But now my firefox already does those things. None of the other features truly are worth installing another plugin. too many and your browser slows down to gooo. and Goo isnt nice.
So yeah, awesome you FINALLY did what fifty mini coder people have already done...didnt impress me much on this one, not to say i dont think the last 15 releases have been perfect shots and i know the next 7 will probably be all A's...this was average, added to the group of random plugins...
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when the googlebar extension works great, appears to be more customizable (less features though, but who cares, I only use 5% of them anyways), frill free and prolly doesnt latch onto my gmail logon...
Some other Firefox extensions: Send text (of webpage) to phone and the suggest technology in the firefox search bar.
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The Google Suggestion toolbar functionality (suggests matches as you type search terms) isn't in this new toolbar!
Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim
They also released an extension with 'suggestions', just like at Google Suggest.
Get them both, along with the toolbar, at http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/
Google cache dupes slashdot articles
Come on, that's not the kind of attitude we should be having around here.
I'm not particularly a fan of Google (though I use and enjoy their services every day), but this kind of behavior towards a company that's releasing a Linux product is not very nice.
The filesystem is the package manager
Wow! Good thing Novell recently released Linux 9.0!
The IE google bar can be placed to display on the same line as file, edit, view ... so that it doesn't take up extra screen real estate but the ff version doesn't work like that, maybe its the fault of FF (which is my assumption) but its still unusable IMHO, when your screen is 10.4"@1024x768 you do what you can to maximize the viewable area of your browser window. This extension, while long anticipated by me, is not appreciated.
Goodbye Spellbound! Thank you very much for your service, it was well appreciated, but you made me look the fool too many times in forum posts. I still love you but Google's spell checker is more thexy :)
Yea, that's why I feel bad for him. He's gonna get lambasted this time by people crying dupe, when this time it really technically isn't. =)
Slashdot is a tough crowd to please; furthermore, it seems that there are many who don't even want to be pleased, and will go out of their way to make sure it's that way for everyone.
So where is the debian support?
Go to the w3.org and put Slashdot.org through the validator.
Does this download work for the browser in the full Mozilla suite, for those of us who prefer it to FireFox? I'm already running the mozdev googlebar, just wondering if an official one will be released from Google.
I installed the toolbar from Google Toolbar homepage and all it did was cause Firefox to run reallly really slow. It wouldn't even open until I killed a script that was running.
Conversly, I installed the Google Toolbar from http://googlebar.mozdev.org/ and absolutly no problems at all...
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You forgot Science Fiction (sf)
Mozilla does more, has more knobs to twiddle and configure, and doesn't suffer from many of the bugs and lack of features that still plague Firefox. Mozilla is also still using a more-recent version of Gecko than Firefox (though Firefox is supposed to be switching over soon, so those Firefox-only HTML rendering issues should disappear).
When will Google release the toolbar for Mozilla? Ever? Never?
Personally I can't STAND the ugly interface of Firefox, even with the cleanest theme.. its very.. "kindergarten" looking and feels very entry-level.
YMMV, of course, and I use Mozilla several hours every day doing web development. I'd never switch to Firefox for the same tasks.
google released two other firefox extensions today as well: http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html
Rocks On. Available for FF and old school classic Mozilla, my preferred ride. It is the Keymaster AND Gatekeeper of XUL, baby.
... and finally learn how to uninstall these damned things.
/. users can appreciate, I fired up a FF window that has two tabs, with the expected slashdot.org and slashdot.org/users.pl in them. I then opened a third tab with the Google Toolbar discussion, and waited for its busy wheel to stop spinning ... and waited ... and waited ... until finally, after several minutes the spinning froze. Another minute, and it hadn't moved. I hit the little stop-sign icon, and after a while, FF sorta came back.
/. window. CMD-click did open a couple more tabs, all of which hung in the "frozen busy" state. I tried a few ways of getting menus; none worked. Clicking on a tab would bring it to the front, but click-hold never produced a menu. Neither did click-hold inside a tab.
;-) linux box where it takes between 2 and 3 seconds. But 10 minutes is way past what I'd call marginally usable.
/., meaning that the menus aren't dead, either. They're just so slow as to be unusable.
I made the mistake of deciding to give it a try on my Mac Powerbook (10.3.9). Bad mistake. This was typed to the Camino browser, because now my FF is all but unusable.
To use an example that
So I tried opening a new FF window, using CMD-N as usual. Nothing. I tried it a few more times. Nada. No errors, no windows. I guessed that CMD-N was dead.
So I started playing with a few other things in the
WTF?
Then, after maybe 10 minutes, a set of blank windows suddenly appeared. So CMD-N isn't dead; it just takes 10 minutes. Now, I'd gotten used to FF taking 30 seconds on OSX, unlike my (slower
Then, a few minutes later I saw a whole lot of menus flashing above the FF window where I was viewing
So it looks like I'll have to hunt down this Toolbar and excise it. Too bad I didn't get a chance to try it. Well, actually, I did. I typed in a search string and hit Return - and the window became a zombie. And my cpu was pegged at 100%, with Activity Monitor saying that Firefox was hung. I got my cpu back by hitting the little 'x' "close" icon for the window, and after a minute or so it went away, and cpu usage dropped.
I wonder where I can find the docs on removing the little monster? I'd sure like my firefox back.
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With Firefox, any feature of value that Google might provide can be provided by disinterested third parties who aren't burgeoning corporate empires. Isn't that what open source is supposed to be like?
Is this really newsworthy? I'm so sick of all the google related news anytime they hiccup or sneeze. Too many fanboy editors. Can we have more REAL NEWS?
Feel free to discuss what you'd like to see more of. I think the slashdot editors think they know the pulse of the readers, but really, most slashdot poster will comment on anything.
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I seem to have succeeded in deleting the damned google toolbar. I even found the info in the google toolbar docs (using another browser, of course, since FF was a zombie).
/. pages once again download in a few seconds and display fine. In fact, I typed this into a FF window.)
And they didn't work. There were two ways listed, and both failed for the same reason. They seemed to want to pop up a new window to handle the job - and the window never appeared. Not even after 15 minutes of letting the "busy" icon spin.
Furthermore, attempting to get such a window put FF into an even more bizarre state that I've never seen before: Almost everything I tried got the "Bonk!" noise that signifies refusal. And then nothing worked in FF, not even moving the window or clicking to bring it to the top. These just got a "Bonk!" refusal. But if I clicked another window and brought it on top of FF, then I could do one operation in FF, e.g. grabbing the titlebar and moving the FF window worked. But just once; releasing the button and trying a second move got another "Bonk!" refusal, until I brought another window to the top and then re-selected FF. Very bizarre.
And, of course, FF refused to exit. So I did a "Forced Quit", which thankfully worked.
On starting a new FF, the google-toolbar install window appeared again, though I'd already done it. It refuses to take "No" for an answer; your only choice is whether to enable the PageRank display. After checking one of those, the only thing that works is the "Install" button. So I did. And, happily, the instructions for uninstalling google toolbar now produced the window with the list of extensions, which seems to have worked.
I certainly won't try that experiment again.
(And yes, I did dig around in google's docs to see if my problem is mentioned. Couldn't find any clues at all. Maybe I'll send a link to these two messages to google's support people, and see what they make of it. Probably something somewhere wrong on my machine. But there were no clues at all. Nothing at all like a warning or error message. The only symptom was that FF became utterly unusable. Now the
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Being able to spell check anything entered into a form is nice, but I dont want to use it unless I can get rid of every thing but the spell check and put the spell check up on the nav bar
True, but for people who live overseas and/or have to deal with other languages, the one-click translate is a godsend. There may be other sites out there who do translations, but one-click (almost) always kicks ass.
Am I the only person who normally finds Google's offerings interesting, but this to be useless and extremely late in coming? Using AutoFill and SpellBound, combined with Firefox's built-in Google search bar with its own drop-down list, I find the Google toolbar to be a huge waste of screen space. I'd much rather put my 50+ RSS feeds across the top and save the rest of my screen space.
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Is this because Firefox has that built-in? What are you gaining with this version over Googlebar?
Bring on the hourly updates!
Does anyone else realize that this Google Toolbar is just a collection of features which could be (and in most cases, already are) individual extensions?
Firefox already has a google search bar. Who the fuck cares about this crap. And it's a non-open source toolbar at that. Completely redundant and useless.
I'm not anti-microsoft. I'm anti-bullshit. Which means I'm anti-microsoft.
Didn't see a single thing I need to use.
Already got Google search on my address bar as it is with Firefox.
And I can already spell.
Never need to translate words FROM English, and any software I've seen translating INTO English sucks.
Rest of the stuff is just worthless to me.
Oh, well. I only have four Firefox extensions installed (Flashblock, keyconfig, Download Manager Tweak, and Netcraft Toolbar - and the latter is of questionable value until I actually find a suspicious site being flagged) as it is. I'm not someone that needs to load down his software with every tweak and button somebody comes up with.
I never customize my Linux or Windows desktops and windows with anything except a wallpaper displayer to see my babe pictures.
I never detailed a car either.
Frills just don't interest me.
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Now is my first time to use Google toolbar (or any other browser toolbar add-on), and I find the dictionary superb!
I'm running Japanese firefox and it translates any English word that I hover my mouse on into Japanese. And Firefox doesn't seem slowed down one bit! The "magic" of AJAX, I suppose...
Now to see if it translates other languages into Japanese... ^_^
I was pleasently surprised to see a link to Googlebar on the Google Toolbar download page.
about 3 years from the original google toolbar for the IE...
I don't know if Gentoo 2005 will fit the Linux 8 requirement: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733 ,39200568,00.htm
>Linux is not user-friendly.
It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
Googlebar (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph p?id=33) is so much better
Firefox now crashes immediately on startup. Nice feature... back to Safari. Seriously, I think I will be uninstalling Firefox, and doing a reinstall. As soon as Firefox becomes visible, I get the "Thank you for installin Google Toolbar", and then the mozilla talkback pops up... Time to go back to watching the hurricane's progress in Safari. Steve on the Gulf Coast
Why do these toolbars always insist on using an ENTIRE line of my browser? Considering they don't normally take up an entire line, it would be highly useful if I could cram two of them together on the same line. I have ALREADY uninstalled this PoG. The built-in search function is perfectly usable and only uses a little tiny bit of desktop real estate. Many more toolbars like this and I will have to get a desktop switcher just to see webpages.
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I'm running 1.0.4, but I think that my Firefox is reporting 0.9.2, so the Googlebar won't install. I checked under Help->About Mozilla Firefox and that is where I see the user agent string that is mismatched to the version number. What a pain!
It says:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/0.9.2
Monitor bandwidth usage on IIS6 in real-time: http://www.waetech.com/services/iisbm/
Does the Firefox Google toolbar work for Netscape 7.x or Netscape 8?
I remember word 6. I was running a computer lab at the time. When 6 came out we switched from WP to Ms Office and converted the whole lab.
MS shipped word 6 with a macro virus. Or a least some of the copies. Imagine 100s of angry business majors who lost their work. My ears still ring.
One of the reasons I like having my users run Firefox is the LACK of browsers! They can fill up half the browser screen with multiple stacked "toolbars". Damn them to hell!
So not only is it crippled to only 3 os's. :(
The main feature that was lacking in the non-official google toolbar extensions, page ranking(the actual voting buttons) is not there.
Only people with windows and IE can rank stuff on google still.
I think it is great that this has been released for Linux, but what is the point of this on OS X? I mean most Firefox users on OS X probably run Camino or something with a native front end right? I know I do. Looking at the feature list I don't see anything (except maybe pagerank) that is not already implemented as a system service and usable on all applications. Why would anyone bother to install a program that will make it work for just Firefox? Half of these functions should be system services (like translation) so they work everywhere not just in Firefox and the the other half are already built into Firefox (pop-up blocking) and are aimed at IE users. The only reason I can think of to run this is if you have to switch platforms many times a day and want a consistent browsing experience. Mostly though, I don't see the point.
Anyone noticed that since we keep crying dupe, he's been very careful to point out when things are not dupes (eg. "as covered on Slashdot"). Not that he's been any more careful not to ACTUALLY post dupes. ;)
Read the fucking site now and then, will ya? I mean, dupes don't normally bother me at all, but holy fucking shit, man!!! Do you not bother to even browse the goddamn headlines, or what?!?!?
p.s.- love you in Doonesbury