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Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta
eWarz writes "Following Google's footsteps, Yahoo has released a beta version of it's toolbar for Firefox. The new toolbar is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux."
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Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta and quickly finds out that no one uses because of the already implemented search toolbar in FF. Thank you, I have enough sites reading where I'm going, without Yahoo! doing it for every site. Yes, I realize that Y! probably doesn't do that, but the features on the Y! toolbar don't appeal to me at all. I don't need Y! mail, because I use gmail, and I use Google instead of Yahoo because I hate the sponsored results. And somebody please reply and tell me whether or not they're actually putting the popup blocker in...
The only way to tell the difference between a hamster and a gerbil is that the hamster has more white meat.
Wanted to try this out, but install fails with my nightly Deer Park build. A few other great extensions have too, so maybe it's time for me to switch back to 1.0x...
Think outside the... Hey, where'd the friggin' box go?
so we shall make fluffy user-tracking products instead
http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox
Yahoo! Toolbar --> Beta ---
Google Toolbar BETA
coincidence?
Why are the download buttons both on the right of the screen (I know it can be anywhere, but not many sites before google seemed to put buttons on the right hand side like that).
Before you link to 100 different sites with the download button on the right, how come the hotmail login has moved to the right hand side of the screen only since gmail did it.
It seems they are hinting at a google layout (not that this is a bad thing, nor that google owns two column web page layouts), it just seems a bit strange?
I've had nothing but trouble with this particular toolbar in the past. Every machine at my house that it's been installed on seems to all of a sudden have resource issues. These are not slow machines either. The slowest is an AMD 1.5 GHZ with 1 GIG Ram. I remove it and the machine is right back up to *snuff* as it were. The last time it made it onto one of my machines was inside the Macromedia Shockwave install. I've since banned it's use in my home. Has anyone else had this type of problem with this toolbar?
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The reason it seems more intuitive is that your eye naturally starts at the top left hand corner of the page and sweeps down and to the right. You finish your "journey" as it were at the bottom right hand side of the page. If you notice, most professional websites if not all have their logo and the most pertinent info in the upper left hand side. Then all of the copyright, contact us links, and buttons on forms etc tend to be in the lower right quadrant. If you go to a few different pages for instance www.intel.com, www.novell.com, www.cnn.com, slashdot.org... etc you'll see that. While browsing around the web notice where your eye wants to move comfortably to as the page loads. Or better yet, go to Google and type in some search words and click "I'm feeling Lucky". Then close your eyes as the page loads, give it ample time to load, and then open your eyes. See how many times your eyes will drift to the top right portion of the page first.
One of two things may have happened.
1) Yahoo doesn't understand the "comfort" or "intuitive" nature of humans with upper right corner of webpages, or
2) They have a left handed web designer.
You decide.
Generation Trance: What generation are you?
Sheesh. I work at Google, and I agree. Give us props where we deserve 'em (and, IMHO, we deserve a lot of them :) ) but Yahoo got their Firefox toolbar out first. It's a fact.
Deal with it already and stop rewriting history, Slashdot!
(not opinions of my employer also, blah blah blah)
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