Recently i changed my default search engine to A9. it's not as pretty nor as simple to use as google's, but it gets the job done. just type the word i want, and keep on hitting ctrl+g. that may be nice a nice feature, but i'd prefer type ahead find. Someone mentioned searching highlighted words. If for every search, i had to take my right hand off the keyboard, move it to the mouse, click on the google toolbar, move my hand back to the keyboard, and enter my search phrase, then hit enter, i'd be so inefficient compared to how i am now. but i've gotta say, you just can't beat ctrl+k. Google toolbar may be nice and dandy, but if i recall correctly, they didnt have any hotkey features (maybe they'll have it in the firefox version). Those lazy bastards aren't taking over the world quickly enough)
Official google toolbar for firefox free#
(Cause providing the best search engine, the best free email, and google maps is nowhere near good enough, dammitl. As it is, they are being a little inefficient here. Firefox is all early adopters I think google would have great success on all fronts testing out all their really forward thinking ideas on FF and then porting the stuff that works well to IE. I think instead of porting the IE stuff to FF, google should use the easy extensibility of FF as a way for easy experimentation and come up with some wild stuff that hasn't been seen yet. So while I like their probable motivation, I don't know how useful the extra % or two of functionality is going to be. I admit that it has been a long time since I had google toolbar for IE, but I only ever used it for two things: popup blocking and easy access to a google search.
While I think it's really cool that Google is giving a wink and a nod to alternative browsers, OSS, and the whole shebang, I have to wonder how useful this will be.