I just found out that Google Toolbar is out for Firefox. I downloaded and installed it immediately, but I was a bit disappointed. Although there are a few new features that are not available in Googlebar (the mozdev one) like AutoLink, SpellCheck and PageRank (though I rarely use this one), it has much less tools than Googlebar.

There is one tool that lets you search throught your mails in Gmail through your Google Toolbar, it was mostly redundant. When you want to search your mail, you usually already have your Gmail opened. Another point, to search through your mail, you have to login to Gmail first, so you have to wait through the loading time to login to Gmail or Google Accounts first before you search. And because Gmail uses ActiveX, the pages take longer to load than Google search pages, so using the toolbar takes almost as much time to open up Gmail and then search on the page's search form. The only time it is somewhat useful is if you're on a really low speed dial-up, and you've already logined to Gmail before but closed the page. Then you can save the loading time to load the initial search page, which is your inbox page.

There is one thing I liked about it: The buttons in Google Toolbar look better than the ones in Googlebar. But that excludes that hideous expanding-search-field button, on the right of the field. That one with 2 arrows with a column in the middle.

 

 

 

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very interesting. Although I think all these ***bars are useless as well as comparing them to each other... just my opinion.

peace out

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All I need is my quick search box that comes with firefox and I'm happy. The rest of the features would just distract me

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Do you mean the whole big toolbar, or the little thing in the top right corner?

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They are talking about the whole search bar, I was referring to the little top right hand corner box thang

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I have Firefox but I don't use it very much. When I start using it more I may look into installing this toolbar.

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I must agree with you i was a little dissapointed with it.Plus it took em a while to come out with it.Plus most of the time i use safari instead of firefox.

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I was disapointed with the time it took for Google to make a toolbar, and the fact that it has so few features.

I much prefer the unofficial Googlebar (http://googlebar.mozdev.com), it has so many more features than the official one - if you look, Google actually link to it anyway!

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It is good that Google had launhed Google Bar for firefox. The industry is giving importance to Firefox. But this toolbar is of no use for me. As Jeigh has said I am pretty satisifed with the Search box infront of the address bar. I did not like any of the toolbars because they takes the space of my broswser. I have only one single toolbar is my firefox. I have hide Navigation and Bookmarks toolbar also. But for the persons who were using Googlebar , the new google toolbar from Google will help.

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yes, i like google, google is great, its a very good search engine. This is set up very well.

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