Would you like a Computer Forum toolbar on your browser?

Would you like a Computer Forum toolbar on your browser?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • No

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Total voters
    12
Lorand

Lorand

<b>VIP Member</b>
Wouldn’t be nice a toolbar that has a search box, some buttons (New Posts, User CP, etc.) and even notifies you when someone replied to a subscribed thread?
 
Any kind of bar...

I have phobia towards any kind of bar... even that Adobe Acrobat bar in MS Word gives me the freak.

WHY?

I dunno, seems like all bars do are to advertise a service/take advantage of your desktop/eliminate competition (especially those search engine bars)/ and/or to spy on your online activities.

Yes, Google, I'm sure your bar didn't make u the billionaire that you are now by not cutting out all other search engines.

As for easy access to a web page, I'm sure the favorites menu does nothin. It just sits there looking pretty.

I'm just kidding.

Thumbs up to cluttered desktop. Wait until Windows LongHorn comes out, you can even image the number of helper panes Microsoft will bundle with LongHorn IE.
 
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It woudnt be too hard to organise a toolbar, but the only toolbar I use is the google one. People generally have a distrust of toolbars, probably due to the number of crooked places that try and automatically install them on your browser.
 
I have nothing to hide except for my love for..... {fill in the blanks}
so if Ian ever decides to create one, you can be assured I'll have it there on my system

I have phobia towards any kind of bar... even that Adobe Acrobat bar in MS Word gives me the freak
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Hahaha... really? It facilitates my life when I have to convert a *.doc so... furthermore you are humans right? so a miserly thing should not be the subject of your fear{s} ;)

Later,

AA
 
It seems that the toolbar-thing didn’t have much succes so far... :(
But my opinion is that it could be useful - I can no longer imagine browsing without the Google toolbar.
 
I can no longer imagine browsing without the Google toolbar.
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Me either I am always typing stuff in the search bar, though I use it mainly for the PageRank display.
My second choice of toolbar would have been the alexa toolbar so I could check the Traffic Rank for various sites.
I think google should introduce a traffic rank like alexa, that would be cool.
 
no need for a toolbar

:D
i don't use IE, and bars like google are working on IE only. other browsers i'm using are not supported, and still if i wanna use google it's in cache so it will load preety fast. in fact of knowing how google is working (payments etc.) it's not my leader

try vivsimo.com, or the old hotbot.com
first one works great and hit's and ranking's are not payed :cool:
 
i don't like toolbars... they just clutter my screen. if i need something, i just go to the respective site. afterall, that's what the favourites are for. :)
 
I really like this forum, but i don't really want a toolbar. only because i don't see the use, this server seems to run really fast, so it's not really any more convenient.
 
OK, you won...
Never mind, I'll make such a toolbar for my own personal use (if only I have time for it)... :P
 
For those who voted YES

With a little registry hack you can add a button to the IE toolbar that takes you to the newest posts:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions and create a key with the name
{10954C80-4F0F-11d3-B17C-00C0DFE39736}
then add the following string values:
ButtonText -> New Posts
ClSid -> {1FBA04EE-3024-11d2-8F1F-0000F87ABD16}
Default Visible -> Yes
Exec -> http://www.computerforum.com/search.php?do=getnew

You can even add an icon to it (I was too lazy for that):
Icon -> ..........
HotIcon -> ..........
Where the ..... stands for an *.ico file that you could create for that button (read http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/ext/overview/toolbar_style.asp to see how can you do that).
 
What is IE?

what is this "IE" you speak of?
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If you want to convince me to install Firefox then show me how to add such a button to it.
If it works then I swear I drop IE and use Firefox instead...
 
http://extensions.roachfiend.com/howto.php

Making extensions for Firefox is easy, just takes some getting used to. The 'base' of Firefox is extremely hackable, the interface is defined in simple text through XUL (XML User Interface Language) and CSS, and the functionality through Javascript. You can see how easy it is to add even complex hacks with such tools at your fingertips.
 
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