Posts Tagged ‘Toolbar’

Earthlink Releases Firefox Tools

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Internet Service Provider, EarthLink has released “Earthlink Tools for Firefox“. You’ll find the following included in the “tools”:

  • Includes the EarthLink Toolbar, featuring ScamBlocker, and the hot new EarthLink theme.
  • Displays a visual protection rating for Web pages you are visiting.
  • Alerts you before you enter a page on our list of known fraudulent Web sites.
  • Integrates with Firefox’s built-in popup blocker.
  • Includes a built-in search box for fast, convenient searching.

Umm… yippie.

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MSN Search Toolbar Adds Tabs To IE6

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

I think by now everyone has heard that Internet Explorer version 7 will include tabbed browsing (also known as Multiple-Document Interface or MDI). A highly popular features among alternate web browser such as Opera and Mozilla Firefox, and even some Internet Explorer shells.

While IE7 is still a ways off, Microsoft’s new MSN Search Toolbar adds tabbed browsing support to Internet Explorer 5.01 and greater. Probably the only tabbed browsing support Windows 2000 users will see from Microsoft.

The new MSN Search Toolbar adds more than just tabs. It’s new features try and take on the popularity of two of Google’s products, the Google Toolbar for IE and Google’s Desktop Search application.

I’d have to give Microsoft credit on this one, as they did something I wish Google had done. They integrated the two products into one. With Google, you have to download, installed, and configure each application separately. – Though I can see the flip side to this as well.

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Netcraft Toolbar For Firefox

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Netcraft has released a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Mozilla Firefox. According to Slashdot, Netcraft Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites since the IE version was released in late December.

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MSN Search Toolbar Adds Desktop Search

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Microsoft has released a new version of the MSN Toolbar. The new version of the toolbar adds desktop searching ability, similar to services previously launched by search competitors Google and Yahoo.

It’ll be interesting to see what people think about this. ;)

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Yahoo Toolbar Beta For Mozilla Firefox

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Yahoo! has released a beta version of its toolbar for the Moxilla Firefox web browser.

According to the release notes, this beta should only be used on Firefox 1.0 or later. It has not been cleared for use with Mozilla, Netscape, or other Gecko based browsers. The Press Release has a bit more.

Yahoo isn’t the first search engine to produce a Firefox toolbar, Amazon’s A9 Search also has a toolbar that can be used with Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, and IE. So far, there is no word on if or when Google plans to release a Google Toolbar for Firefox.

After the recent news about Yahoo! Suing XFire, there was a call from OCC Members,the XFire user community, and many others to boycott Yahoo. I’m all for it. ;)

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