Oh dear. Poor Google toolbar.
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
I hate toolbars. Particularly the Google toolbar
I hate toolbars except for the Google toolbar. Googling sucks without it.
Kevin
Really? I think it's just detracting my focus from the center of the browser. Maybe this is why I actually like the new Office GUI, because it doesn't remove my focus so much from what I'm actually looking it. As you might understand, I prefer http://www.google.com, right in the middle of my browser. :)
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It's interesting how this seems to be the case for a lot of people. If you installed all the toolbars you were offered then pretty soon you wouldn't actually be able to see the webpage because of all the bars.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
there's apparently a security flaw in the Google toolbar
So one can expect now another domain called http://googleupdate.google.com (like http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/[^]) filling our hard disk with all those sh*tty crap making our system run slower than a snail. If a hackers site is malware-distributing website, then these sites can also be clarified as a 'White-Collar Malware Websites' creating a diplomatic denial of service on desktops filling it with rubbish.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
there's apparently a security flaw in the Google toolbar
So one can expect now another domain called http://googleupdate.google.com (like http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/[^]) filling our hard disk with all those sh*tty crap making our system run slower than a snail. If a hackers site is malware-distributing website, then these sites can also be clarified as a 'White-Collar Malware Websites' creating a diplomatic denial of service on desktops filling it with rubbish.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonI agree. Even the bigger issue is that even Microsoft asks you whether you want to install something or not, but not the Google toolbar - it updates itself not asking you anything. I don't want something like that in my computer. Another issues is the general gray area that Google is in, I think we are yet to experience the problems when the monster grows up. Check this one: http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
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Really? I think it's just detracting my focus from the center of the browser. Maybe this is why I actually like the new Office GUI, because it doesn't remove my focus so much from what I'm actually looking it. As you might understand, I prefer http://www.google.com, right in the middle of my browser. :)
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
it's just detracting my focus from the center of the browser.
I don't see how. May as well say that any menu at all is distracting your focus. In any case you can always toggle to full screen. IMO, the Google toolbar provides a lot of useful functionality. People seem fixated on the fact that it's a toolbar, rather than looking at the functionality it provides. Two for starters are: 1. Auto-suggest in the search box - a great timesaver. 2. Search results highlighting and navigation to search terms.
Kevin
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I hate toolbars. Particularly the Google toolbar. My disdain for crappy products has saved me once again!
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Don't forget to add the yahoo toolbar to the list, THE de facto standard for crappy piece of steaming turd X|
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
I hate toolbars. Particularly the Google toolbar
I hate toolbars except for the Google toolbar. Googling sucks without it.
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Googling sucks without it.
Really? I can Google just fine without it or any other toolbar.
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Googling sucks without it.
Really? I can Google just fine without it or any other toolbar.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
DavidCrow wrote:
I can Google just fine without it or any other toolbar
I can write code fine without IntelliSense. It just takes me longer. The toolbar has a number of features that I find helpful. I mention two in the post above, but there are others.
Kevin
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Don't forget to add the yahoo toolbar to the list, THE de facto standard for crappy piece of steaming turd X|
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
The Yahoo toolbar is crap, the Google toolbar isn't.
Kevin
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I wonder how long deliberately accumulating that much cruft took.
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