RSSYahoo Builds Toolbar for Firefox
By Nate Mook | Published February 10, 2005, 12:46 PM
In yet another sign of the growing support behind Mozilla's Firefox, Yahoo has released a beta version of its toolbar for the open source Web browser. Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox closely mirrors its companion for Internet Explorer, only lacking the company's Anti-Spy feature and support for International Yahoo IDs.
Although Firefox runs on Mac OS X and Linux as well, Yahoo says the toolbar has only been cleared to work on Windows. "We are working on fixing known problems, so please check toolbar.yahoo.com again in the future for Mac and Linux support," the company says.
Additionally, Yahoo hinted that it may also support Mozilla and Netscape browsers in the near future.
Yahoo is the first major search engine to support Firefox with its toolbar; MSN and Ask Jeeves only work with IE. Despite serving as the default Web site for Firefox, Google has yet to release its toolbar for the up-and-coming Web browser. Google has, however, begun showing support for Firefox.
In January, Google hired two Mozilla developers, including Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger, to join its ranks. But Google has allowed both new employees to donate half their time to work on Firefox, indicating the search giant has future plans for the Mozilla platform.
Like it or not, this is a huge gain for FireFox. I could be wrong, but I do believe that this is the only other browser Yahoo! toolbar has been made for other than IE. If Yahoo is supporting Firefox, many other major web sites will soon follow suit and support it, allowing for even more widespread implementation of Firefox browser.
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|I think this is very interesting news. Microsoft should pay attention to this move from Yahoo. They should make available an updated standalone version of IE6 (that's tabbed) and stop p****footing around waiting for Longhorn to be released.
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|Except firefox is so much more than tabs. You can find tabs in many browsers. FF is excellent, you get a small browser that does everything you need to browse, with many extra features. Some features, called extensions, you need to download seperately and install. These help make the browser small. FF is about keeping secure, and giving you options when viewing the web. For example, there's been several times that i've tried to save an image from a website in other browsers, where the website has disabled left click using java - FF allows java to be enabled and can prevent the disabling of left click at the same time.
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|That is true, FF is more secure than IE. But I believe a new version of IE would be more secure than the current version is. There's no good reason for delay.
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|Sorry but i just hate pointless toolbars. each search engine has one. and now they're gona move to firefox!?! :'(
well we know msn one won't appear for firefox i spose
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|For real people!!! This is like installing a salad bar in the new car you swore you weren't going to eat in.
RE: Thank you I'll be here all week, try the veal!
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|That is the best response I have ever read! Plus Firefox has seach capabilities built in!
I only wish you were able to search for words in a document like you can with the google toolbar. P
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|huh? search for words in a document-as in a website you are visiting? If that's the case, try pushing Control and F, or Edit > Find in This Page.
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