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Google Releases Toolbar 2 for Firefox

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

April 6, 2006, 2:42 PM

Google on Thursday released a beta of its second Toolbar revision for Firefox, adding RSS feed integration with the Google Personalized Homepags and improving search functionality with previous queries, spell checking and suggestions. Toolbar v2 for Firefox also catches mailto links and opens them within Gmail rather than a desktop e-mail client.

"As a dedicated Firefox user, I think that the latest version enhances an already innovative browser. Meanwhile, you IE Toolbar 4 fans may notice that the feature sets aren't identical. That's because Firefox and IE users have different needs," said Google software engineer Justin Voskuhl. "Rest assured that we're working to get the most popular features in both versions."

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By kowrek

posted Apr 7, 2006 - 11:55 AM

How does this compare to the MozDev googlebar? That one was far superior to Google's first attempt at a google toolbar.

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By defned

edited Apr 7, 2006 - 10:41 AM

Anyone having problems installing the new toolbar over top of the old version? I even uninstalled the old one first, restarted Firefox and when I try to install 2.0 and restart FF the old one shows up!!! It did work on another computer with a new install of FF.

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By Movement

edited Apr 7, 2006 - 7:03 AM

RSS Feed?? Quite useless because FireFox has his own RSS Feed which works just fine.

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By horsecharles

posted Apr 6, 2006 - 5:00 PM

Oh, happy day!!!!!
BTW: works fine on win9x too. Also, will not install if downloading w/ another browser-- though it will require the standard FF closing/re-opening.

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By sztosz

posted Apr 6, 2006 - 4:38 PM

I love this toolbar v.1 It does speelchecking in my native Polish Language :) It's also better than native firefox "find in text".

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By PC_Tool

edited Apr 6, 2006 - 4:57 PM

Polish...but apparently not english? ;)

"speelchecking"

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By chriscollier

posted Apr 7, 2006 - 7:25 PM

hahahahahaha

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By Straspey

posted Apr 6, 2006 - 6:48 PM

"Speelchecking" (v)

A common activity often found occuring among people on the morning after having consumed copious amounts of alcohol (hic).

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By xoineg

posted Apr 7, 2006 - 8:25 AM

I feel like I'm back in school again.. At least not for another 2 hours..... :P

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By horsecharles

edited Apr 6, 2006 - 5:08 PM

That's funny: that's what you call typist's spaztia-- i do it all the time...one's mind is so fucused on making sure to hit an upcoming double consonant's key twice, that one's electrocircuits too eagerly jump the gun and double-strike the preceding letter's key.
It's actually a sign of high intelligence and a sharp mind(the converse of a Droopy Dog-style doubling up a following letter)......

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By PC_Tool

posted Apr 6, 2006 - 5:45 PM

+5 informative. ;)

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