Award Winning Yahoo! Toolbar Now Available to Mozilla Firefox Users; Yahoo! Ships Toolbar for Leading Open Source Browser.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) a leading global Internet company, today announced the beta release See beta version. of the Yahoo! Toolbar Yahoo! Toolbar is a toolbar that is always carried along the browser whatsoever the website you are on. it has following features: Email notifier Messenger button news link pop up blocker etc for the Mozilla Firefox See Firefox. web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Awarded the "Editor's Choice" by CNet(1) and ranked the most popular toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the on the Web(2), the Yahoo! Toolbar Beta will enable Mozilla Firefox users to fully customize their Internet experience. "The Yahoo! Toolbar provides Internet users with a faster, safer and personalized Web experience," said Eckart Walther, director product development, Yahoo! Search This article is about the Yahoo! Search Engine. For the corporation, see Yahoo! ; for other uses see Yahoo! (disambiguation). The search engine Introduction Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo!, Inc. . "Yahoo! is now making this functionality available to Firefox users, enabling them to improve their Internet browsing experience using Yahoo!'s industry-leading toolbar." Key Yahoo! Toolbar features available for the Mozilla Firefox browser include: --Bookmarks and custom buttons that follow you anywhere - never lose your bookmarks when switching browsers or logging on from different locations (i.e., home or work) --"Search this site" to find results just for the current web site --Search history to remember your previous searches --"Translate this page" based on the popular Babelfish tools --Mail notification/alerts when new Yahoo! Mail A free, Web-based e-mail service from Yahoo!. It includes Yahoo! Messenger, which alerts you if you have mail and also provides voice chat. See Yahoo! Messenger. arrives --One click access to Yahoo! Games, Finance, News, Sports and any web site you choose --One click "Add to My Yahoo!" on sites that provide RSS/Atom feeds "We're excited about the release of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Firefox has been downloaded more than 23 million times since its launch in November and the Yahoo! Toolbar release demonstrates the popularity of the browser and the success of the Mozilla platform. We're very pleased that Yahoo! is supporting browser choice and innovation with this new product." The Yahoo! Toolbar Beta for Mozilla Firefox is available for download at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox. The toolbar is currently available for Windows, with versions for MacOS X, Linux and the award winning Yahoo! Anti-Spy expected shortly. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Yahoo! provides online products and services essential to consumers' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. (1) CNet November, 2004 (2) ComScore December, 2004 |
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