Google toolbar for firefox turn off full#
They know full well the in this day and age Internet Explorer is not going to be a threat to Google Chrome so (for now) they’ll be happy to integrated the Toolbar into IE in the hope that people will love the Google aspect but, in the ever decreasing movement of people away from IE, people will look for alternatives and go to Chrome. Google want the monopoly and want to control everyone and everything their way or no way, simple as that. I know that most of this functionality can be somewhat replicated using a bevy of other add-ons but it sure is nice having it all in one! Page translation – critical since I manage websites in 14 languages
I get faster loading of google results by pre-fetching as I type
I can call up my morning news with 1 click in the toolbar – not a pulldown, scroll, click, etc… My blank page is replaced with thumbnails of my most-visited sites which makes it extremely easy for me to bounce around I can click through each match of a search word on the page effortlessly without having to hit Ctrl+F and typing the word or words and clicking Next Since you never used the toolbar you may erroneously believe that it is nothing more than anotehr search box but in fact it is much more and it is the reason I am still running Firefox 4.Īmong other things the google toolbar allows me to simultaneously search using the same criteria not just for sites but also images, products, maps, my own own history and so much more including my own search buttons that I have added As can Mozilla with Firefox.Ī piece of redundant technology has died. As if he needs it!Īnd why the hell would Google Chrome need the Google Toolbar! They have the seach box thing going on as well, and of Google want to implement any of the functionality in Chrome, then they can easily do that. The fact that Google are no longer producing a toolbar for Firefox is like telling Bill Gates that his Grandmother is no longer going to send a check for $100.00 on his birthday. Long story short, regardless of your setup in Firefox 4 or higher, Ctrl+L or Ctrl+K give you access to all the search power you need.Īs far as the sidewiki and translation parts of the toolbar are concerned, meh, I’m not fussed. When the separate Google search box is hidden and just the address bar is displayed, hitting Ctrl+K will immediately redirect that tab to the front page of Google, where you will find the cursor already placed in the search field ready for you to type a query and get the result that way. If you run Firefox 4 (or higher) with the separate Google Search box hidden, so you just have the address bar spanning the entire width of the page like Google Chrome, then you just hit Ctrl+L to put the cursor into the address bar and you can type a query and hit enter and BAM! a Google results page. If you run Firefox 4 (or higher) with the separate Google Search box to the right of the address bar, then all you need to do in order to access the search power of Google is hit Ctrl+K and the puts the cursor in the search box, type something, hit Enter and BAM! a Google results page. I currently use Firefox 5 and I will be upgrading to Firefox 6 as soon as it comes out. I agree with one of the earlier posters, it takes up to much UI and just adds clutter to the screen and it looks antiquated. However, Matt added that the “writing is on the wall” for this feature as more and more browsers come out and replace the older versions of the browser.I have never used the Google Toolbar as I never saw the point in it. He said Google will continue to support it as long as users are using it. So, he wouldn’t be surprised if the PageRank values in the toolbar go away by themselves. Matt then goes on to explain that Google’s own browser, Chrome, does not have PageRank built into it. In the video, Matt said the reason they still have it is not because SEOs use it but rather because searchers and users still use it to determine how “reputable” a web site is. Never made a Google Toolbar for Chrome, so PageRank scores never showed in that browser.Google dropped the Google Toolbar for Firefox in 2011.Removed PageRank scores from Google Webmaster Tools in October 2009.It is a very fair question, given Google has downplayed the importance of PageRank over the years. Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video on YouTube named Why don’t you turn off the PageRank feature in the Google Toolbar?