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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. my bad by bigwavejas · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and all this time I thought the toolbar was a virus or spamware.

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  2. Re:SlashWetBar? by badmammajamma · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think there's a big market for toolbars that just repeat stories from a week ago.

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  3. I'm not the only one I'm sure by iamdrscience · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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"

  4. Mozilla support by Esine · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 :)

    1. Re:Mozilla support by WilliamSChips · · Score: 3, Insightful
      And Google needs to release the toolbar for Linux.
      Google Toolbar for Firefox already runs on Linux.

      The Firefox extension system is cross-platform, or at least most of it is.
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  5. 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. Re:Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta by X · · Score: 5, Informative

      You should try the toolbar. It has a number of handy features. The "Save to My Web" button is very handy, as are the Yahoo Bookmarks. I also like having the "Translate Page" button for pages in languages I don't know. Also nice to have an "Add to My Yahoo" button for RSS feeds. The integrated Calendar support is handy as Sunfire still isn't quite there yet.

      All in all, it's got something for everyone.

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  6. How many toolbars do we need? by cashman73 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You know, if every popular website/search engine released some sort of toolbar to be added to your web browser, it might make it a bit difficult to see the actual content of the website we're viewing,... When does this all end?

    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,... ;-)

  7. The Firefox bandwagon... by TopSpin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q: How many users prefer Beta Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox over Google Toolbar for Firefox?

    A: Both.

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    1. Re:The Firefox bandwagon... by sabNetwork · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Google toolbar is mostly useless, but the Google Suggest extension is cool shit. It hooks into Firefox's built-in search box.

  8. My Yahoo by onion2k · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  9. Everyone else is doing it.. by springbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on Microsoft, how about an MSN toolbar for Firefox? ;)

  10. 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?

    1. Re:Similar? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 5, Informative

      You seem to be implying that Yahoo is copying Google. I can't believe I'm defending Yahoo, but this Google cheerleading has got to stop.

      Yahoo released the beta version of their Firefox toolbar in February, months before Google Toolbar.

      Yahoo has had the login on the right side of the screen for as long as I can remember-- 1997 or so?

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  11. old newz by njko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Following Google's footsteps, Yahoo has released a Search Engine"

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  12. 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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  13. WHAT?? Yahoo! Toolbar was first. by keepper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously guys, this yahoo bashing google loving is pathetic..

    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.

    1. 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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  14. Complete Story Debugger Output by Gherald · · Score: 4, Funny

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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.

    A solution is available for your error: go back to school.

    For future reference, see this document.

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