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Google Toolbar for Firefox Released

Posted by Zonk on from the new-toys dept.

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.

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  1. That's great and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I think I speak for everyone on Slashdot when I ask when is Microsoft going to release the MSN Toolbar for Firefox?

    1. Re:That's great and all by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 3, Funny

      Right after they get Microsoft Office and Outlook running on FreeBSD.

    2. Re:That's great and all by Rei · · Score: 3, Funny

      A million monkeys. A million keyboards. MSN Toolbar. Let it get in YOUR way!

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    3. Re:That's great and all by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Funny

      A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away, I actually had Word 6.0 running on Solaris 2.6/SPARC, under WABI, which provided a Windows 3.1 environment. It worked slowly, but other than that, pretty well. In fact, I got a macro virus, Concept1. Was weird for the guy running Solaris to be able to identify to the company (all 8 of us) that we had a Word macro virus. They started to scrub the fileservers and eventually traced it back to a Word doc from a vendor.

      Who says microsoft doesn't do cross platform, I got a cross platform virus people, years before java.

    4. Re:That's great and all by dicepackage · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am still waiting for Microsoft to release a version of Internet Explorer for Linux.

    5. Re:That's great and all by Mozk · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why would you want to use an inferior product that's full of holes? There are many better alternatives.

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  2. Google /.'ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whats this toolbar.google.com is /.'ed? How ironic!

  3. might as well by buddha42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google should just CNAME pr.google.com to slashdot.org

  4. Re:Technically, it's not a dupe.... by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    And, tomorrow we'll have "Google Firefox Toolbar released yesterday!". Then, the day after, "Two Days Since Firefox Google Toolbar Released". Then, in a weeks time "Major Security Issues with Google Toolbar for Firefox." Then a couple of days later "Security Issues Fixed In New Release of Google Toolbar for Firefox." Then a month from now "New Book About Using Google Toolbar For Firefox, ISDN#82389234"

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  5. Great news by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now I can replace the built-in Mozilla search facility with a new, Google approved model that will "anonymously" monitor my browsing habits.

    Great!

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  6. Re:wtf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You've must've installed the Hasselhoff toolbar.

  7. Re:Mine installed in German! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sprechen die Deutsch nicht?

  8. Re:Technically, it's not a dupe.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a new theory about dupes.

    Slashdot is starting to suck so bad that the userbase is not longer submitting worthy stories (as witnessed by the crappy articles that have been posted lately). But the problem is even worse than first suspected. The submission rate is so low, that they must create filler inbetween the crap stories. This filler usually consists of dupes of the almost good to fairly good stories.

  9. Re:Slashdot promotes spyware by dameron · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the page you are viewing will be sent to Google if you click on the "Cached Snapshot", "Backward Links" or "Similar Pages" features.

    Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.

    How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?

  10. Re:Technically, it's not a dupe.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Then a month from now "New Book About Using Google Toolbar For Firefox, ISDN#82389234"

    International Standard Dupe Number?
  11. Re:Its cool by owenb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, know yore reply is guaranteed to bee prefect

  12. Re:Technically, it's not a dupe.... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How can it be your ISDN line number? It's eight digits."

    Checksum, duh.

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  13. Re:Slashdot promotes spyware by evilmrhenry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.

    How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?

    By sending you the information for every page on the Internet, then allowing you to pick the page you want client-side, of course.

    (Note: may not be practical.)

  14. Re:"Toolbars" make me uncomfortable... by plumby · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's your credit card number?