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Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-the-bar dept.

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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  1. Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta by emandres · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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...

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    1. Re:Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta by dnixon112 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      If you hate sponsored results, you must hate Google more then Yahoo. Because there's more sponsored results in Google search results than Yahoo.

  2. Similar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

  3. Resource Hog!? by GecKo213 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  4. Re:WHAT?? Yahoo! Toolbar was first. by ZorbaTHut · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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