I don’t think the announcement of a Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox is any real surprise considering the friendly relationship between the two companies and the growing popularity of Firefox.
Anyway, yes a Firefox version of the Google Toolbar is now available for download. — One nice note, the beta version of the toolbar is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac Operating Systems.
To bad the first Google tool for Linux is something I won’t be using. 
There is a new (minor) version of the Google Toolbar for IE, though I cannot exactly say when it was released.
According to the version history for the toolbar, the last version released as 3.0.119.9, which is what I had installed. However, after installing the toolbar on another computer, the version reads 3.0.123.2.
While no information is available yet on what’s has changed between 3.0.119.9 and 3.0.123.2, I’d say based off of the information about previous version, this only contains “Miscellaneous fixes and improvements”.
This has been a long time coming. To long to be honest, but it’s done now. That’s right, Microsoft Windows XP Professional has been reinstalled on my main rig. I’m actually in the process of reinstalling various applications as I type this. 
So, what are some of the first things I install? Well, in no particular order:
In addition to all of those, I also make it top priority to uninstall many of the default things Windows XP installs. Things like Windows Messenger, MSN Explorer, as well as the default set of games, wallpapers, and various other useless things. After those are gone, I also take a extremely close look at the Windows Services to see what I want to disable. For those of you who don’t know what you can or should disable for better performance, I’d suggest taking a look at this guide.