In a bit of surprising move, Google has announced that they are going to discontinue Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox 5.0 and newer versions.
Here is what the official announcement says:
First of all, we'd like to thank all of our loyal users of Google Toolbar for Firefox. We deeply appreciate all of the feedback over the years that helped to make the product so useful. As we all know, over the past few years, there has been a tremendous amount of innovation in the browser space.
For Firefox users, many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browser. Therefore, while Google Toolbar for Firefox works on versions up to and including Firefox 4 only, it will not be supported on Firefox 5 and future versions.
That's true that many Google toolbar features like searchbox, spell check, etc are built into Firefox but what about other useful features like Page translation, Auto-fill, Page sharing, Gmail notifications, etc?
If you are a long time uses of Google toolbar, you are really going to miss it in Firefox.
What do you think of this move by Google? Is it a clever step to move people from Firefox to Google Chrome browser? Please post your opinion in your comment...
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Kwame
i really use that a lot...too bad its being removed...i dont like chrome that much
Someone
I don't use all the time anyway, plus Firefox is not my main browser, IE9 is.
Matt
Why are they removing it? I use it a lot!
Kyle
WAT???????????? :((((((( I LOVE GOOGLE TOOLBAR!!!!
*BIG facepalm*
memo
The Google toolbar was (and maybe still is for 7,8 and 9; anyway I don't use IE) necessary for IE 6 and under. For Firefox always has been a redundancy and waste of screen which logs browsing habits. It's a nuisance.
Superior browsers like Firefox, Opera and SRWare Iron don't need that kind adware installed.
leomate
Just edit install.rdf ane you will be fine ;)
KTown
I never did like the Google toolbar for Firefox or IE (when I used to use IE). So blah. Good riddings. I'm not using Chrome for toolbar that I do not like anyway.
Rtyh-12
Right when I decided to switch to Firefox...
Well, not permanently. Google Chrome Canary decided to stop working, so I'm probably going to use Firefox until tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Guess that's what happens if you use an unstable version...
Anyway, I never used the Google toolbar anyway, so I won't miss it.
NZero
lifehacker.com/5458509/get-google-toolbars-features-without-the-toolbar
Vic
I've been using Firefox as my default browser for 5 years, and I've never had the need for Google Toolbar. I don't need it, and don't want it.