Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta

wellington map writes "Google has released Firefox search toolbar (Version 1.0.20050923) after two months in beta. One interesting addition is Google Suggest, which guesses what you're typing and offers useful suggestions in real time."

Comments

Shame it doesn't work with 1.5..

[Dogers]

Claims it's not compatible and refuses to install. Don't they support other beta programs? :)

Google and Beta

[Kylere]

I wish Microsoft and Google could merge, then Microgle would produce beta products that worked already, and alpha products that are not impressive enough to upgrade to!

Re:Slashdot playing favorites?

[Anonymous Coward]

The FAQ clearly states that submissions from bland usernames will be rejected outright. Try changing it to "HOTBabe18NotWearingPantiesRightNow" and your articles will be accepted immediately.

Also, try lowering your UID. 917138 is awfully high to be taken seriously by the editorial staff.

Re:Google toolbar

[The New Andy]

On my computer doing some time trials these are the results I get for loading times:

Firefox:
68, 69, 69, 72, 65

IE
81, 81, 75, 71, 75

Opera
93, 103, 103, 107, 103

All of these were timed by hand using a stopwatch, so the results aren't perfect. The units are 1/100s, and each test was opening a new browser window from the exectable (not from within the running application). My system is a P4 2.4 Mobile, 512, XP Pro. Each application was loaded 5 times untimed before being timed to make sure they were cached.

My firefox install is also the one with the most crap in it (15 extensions), with IE having the google toolbar, and Opera having nothing extra.

From this, I'd say that the performance in firefox is pretty awesome when it comes to startup times. (Or my IE is really slow)

Re:I know I will probably get modded down

[myukew]

no, theyre useful

Re:Google toolbar

[kevin_conaway]

Anyone else find it humorous that a guy named timecop is complaining about the time it takes to open an app?

What do you mean by Beta?

[gaanagaa]

I thought "Google Beta" was the full name and "Beta" was the surname for Google.

Re:Spell Check

[Anonymous Coward]

many other firefox extentions out there with

Not using that spellchecker right now, I see.

Re:now it's opera's turn

[croddy]

opera has around 0.09% of the browser market. google's time would be better spent on a custom distribution of Lynx.

Re:Credit Card Autofill

[rcamera]

we at slashdot would love to help you. please fill in all dialogs for autofill, take a high-quality screenshot of the window, and reply to this post with a link to the image. upon seeing the entered information, we should be able to help you with your problem.

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