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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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...and all this time I thought the toolbar was a virus or spamware.
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
Does this mean they have figured out how to port spyware to linux/MAC?
I don't think there's a big market for toolbars that just repeat stories from a week ago.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
I read the headline to this article and I just couldn't figure out what a Firefox toolbar was, let alone why Yahoo would release one.
Perhaps a better headline would be "Yahoo toolbar beta for Firefox"
What they should do is release a toolbar for Mozilla Suite as well and not only Firefox.
:)
And Google needs to release the toolbar for Linux.
Though, even if they did that, I'd still continue using Opera
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.
I mean, currently in Firefox, I have the FF Bookmark toolbar, the BioBar (a FF add-on for biomedical research; PDB, etc), and the google toolbar. Now they want me to add the Yahoo! toolbar?!?! Please!
Now, a Slashdot Toolbar could be pretty cool, on the other hand,... ;-)
Q: How many users prefer Beta Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox over Google Toolbar for Firefox?
A: Both.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
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?
The only Yahoo! specific thing it does is the My Yahoo system of adding pages to a central server so you can take "favourites" with you between computers. The Yahoo search is an easy addition to the site searcher (defaults to Google, easy to switch), and the rest of it is just duplicating the bookmarks system. I'll ignore the "anti-spyware" stuff because that's Windows specific.
At least Google's toolbar does stuff like reporting PageRanks. This one seems to be bloat for the sake of getting a Yahoo logo onto your desktop.
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Come on Microsoft, how about an MSN toolbar for Firefox? ;)
Every single time the Yahoo Toolbar gets installed on one of my PC's at home I have nothing but trouble with the resources afterwards. The last time it snuck onto one of my computers at home was with the Macromedia Shockwave install. I've banned it's use and installation in my house. Anyone else have the same experience with this particular toolbar?
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?
Following Google's footsteps, Yahoo has released a Search Engine"
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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?
Generation Trance: What generation are you?
Seriously guys, this yahoo bashing google loving is pathetic..
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This was released Feb 2005
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000077.html
Googles was released this month ( I think, double check that )
And yes, i do work for Yahoo, but these are not the opinions of my employer.
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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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And those of us using safari, still don't care. A yahoo toolbar will be a great idea when Yahoo becomes a worthwhile place to visit for something other than yahoogroups, internet poker, and webcam girls.
It's been available for months actually. May not have been advertised but if you went to toolbar on yahoo with firefox it prompted for firefox toolbar beta download.
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Unfortunately, as much as I like Yahoo's other real estate (mail, calendar, etc.), I gotta say that I won't be installing it. Their search, from what I can tell, is now primarily for paid listings only. We've had our company's web site up for 3 years, with Google spidering it completely every day and it has a Google Page Rank of "5". Yahoo only just in the past week added our front page. Of course, that's tiny anecdotal evidence, but to me, that says a lot about the quality of Yahoo's search.
"Protect yourself from spyware with Anti-Spy for Windows"
First it's the anti-virus industry totally ignoring Mac and Unix users. Now Google and Yahoo leave Mac and Unix users to swing in the wind. Does anyone have anti-spyware for something other than Windows?
I don't want to have to switch to Windows just to get this support.
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how is this news? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/002920 4&tid=154&tid=95&tid=1
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?
The reason I use it is because it carries my bookmarks / favorites, and other settings (groups, search prefs, etc.) not only from PC to PC, but also from Browser to Browser. I use IE at work (Corporate Standard), FF & IE on Windows at home, and FF on Linux at home. My settings follow me seamlessly on all 3 platforms, as well as any other PC I log into that has the toolbar.
If I am at work, and find a cool site, I can bookmark it and know I'll find it at home on my toolbar, regardless of what OS or Browser I am using on either end.
No kidding. Is it too much to ask the Editorial|Approval Board to make a simple check for it's and its before they post it to the public system?
They almost need to have a c/it's/its/ macro run by default and they'd be 100% correct. It seems practically every time it's appears in article text it's supposed to be its
You know, if programmers had feedback from compilers which merely said "Sorry, there are errors" and didn't tell them where they were or what they were, they'd be far more meticulous about their coding and would likely be more careful about their use of the English language as well. I think the only reason they're able to deal with the structure of code and not the written word is because they receive pretty explicit feedback regarding their errors from compilers.
It's why I said a long, long, long time ago: In this business, you don't have to be good, just good enough. It's why most software sucks and why a lot of things questionable programmers write (prose-wise) is of the same [dubious] quality.