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What’s on your Toolbar?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief February 14, 2008 · 1 min read

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Recent news of the Google Toolbar hijacking 404 pages got me a bit curious. Are people still using toolbars until now? I guess the obvious answer is yes.

Obviously all these toolbar fanaticism is driven by only two things — ad money and ~~spying~~ data gathering.

So, what toolbars are installed in your browser and why are they in there?

Google Toolbar
Yahoo! Toolbar
MSN Toolbar
Ask Jeeves
Alexa Toolbar
DAP
eBay
Teoma
Stumble Upon
Netcraft
ESPN Toolbar
NBA Scoreboard
Skype Toolbar
ICQ
Neopet
Twitter
Facebook
Dictionary.com Toolbar
MySpace
Alta Vista
WindowsLive

Oh, there’s tons of them on the list. I just notice I had the Google and Stumble Upon toolbar and yet I don’t use them.

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38 Comments

CallCenterVet · 18 years ago

some people are in denial… they say they don’t care about PR but they still have the little green bar on the browser…

karla · 18 years ago

@Abel,
Amen to that. :) I do not like a cluttered browser. :D

Vincent · 18 years ago

Webdeveloper toolbar for my firefox

boddah · 18 years ago

google toolbar only

bluejackal · 18 years ago

i use google toolbar for searches and email, and yahoo toolbar for email too, both firefox versions. reminds of cnets worst download for 2007 – the kevin federline toolbar..hehe

JC John SESE Cuneta · 18 years ago

I have Google Toolbar and Stumble Upon. Been using those two since it first came out, and use both regularly.

Other than that, I also have Yoono and the WebDeveloper toolbar.

This is for Firefox 2 btw. Waiting for these toolbars to be compatible with Firefox 3.

BrianB · 18 years ago

My screen is low enough as it is, but I do have stumbleupon and google, which gives me a translator, autolink and PR. I do have other toolbars on the options section.

Abel · 18 years ago

Web developer toolbar is still the most productive toolbar for me.

Lloyd Lopez · 18 years ago

I’m just using google toolbar.

Melatonina · 18 years ago

dead toolbar ba? hehehe

Jaypee · 18 years ago

I only have the StumbleUpon toolbar which I use once in a while. :D

If you have toolbars on your browser without you installing them yourself, it came with a program that you installed. Next time, make sure to read first before installing a program.

dwek · 18 years ago

google and urban dead toolbar

nina · 18 years ago

Nada. I like having clutter-free browsers.

jhay · 18 years ago

I use Google toolbar on Firefox mainly for the one-click gmail button, sometimes I also use the Image and News search buttons when I’m a bit lazy.

Other toolbars have been banished because they are not only useless and hog system resources, they also eat up screen space.

djoching · 18 years ago

i got google and stumble upon too but don’t use them also…

LiNTEK · 18 years ago

google and netcraft

Dyimz · 18 years ago

I got yahoo on my firefox…I don’t even know why it is there..=]

Gem · 18 years ago

I am always against any toolbars. Mostly it slows down my connection (I still use dial-up). But there is one toolbar that I have permitted in on my firefox browser – the one from workabroad.ph because they had no RSS feed.