Yahoo Toolbar for
Firefox - integrated search, access to email and
chatI don't use FireFox but my wife does. She also has
several Yahoo mail accounts and uses Yahoo Instant Messenger. I told her
about the new Yahoo toolbar for Firefox and she decided to try it. After
agreeing to the terms of use, she tried to download it. The darned java
script that Yahoo used as a download link wouldn't work in her copy of
Firefox so she had to open Internet Explorer to get it to download. Now
she should have been able to double click the downloaded file and it
should have opened up Firefox's installer tool but nothing happened when
she double clicked it. Apparently the file type wasn't registered to
Firefox and she had to use "File" "Open File" in Firefox to get it to
install. Once she installed it and then shut down and reopened Firefox,
the toolbar was there. However, the toolbar buttons on the right side were
displaying an error message and wouldn't pop in. Later after she rebooted,
the toolbar buttons finally popped in. We tried the anti-spy feature and
it worked very nicely.
Conclusion: I don't think the toolbar is
ready for us yet. My wife had way too many problems getting this to work.
Maybe we'll try again after it's gotten some of the bugs worked out. Many
of the more dedicated Firefox users may not have any problems.
If you try it out, let me know
what happened.
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collect information it gets from your use of it's services)
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