Google FireFox Toolbar Beta!

If anyone haven't noticed yet,

Google released FF Toolbar in beta.

Grab them here :
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/

 

Nice find, looks like page rank isn't going away just yet.

 

Don't like the way PR is oriented vertically though...

 

its good to see google get one for firefox i was especting it to happen i sue firefox quite a bit

 

Cool, Looks nice with FF and can see PR too!

 

Finally, surprised it took them so long to release this. Works really well though, and has eradicated my final excuse for ever needing to use IE albeit briefly.

 

I have been wondering if there can be a toolbar compatible fof firefox. Good that Google launched one.

 

I have installed and uninstalled this. I use other plugin for PR. Too much toolbars can make me headache

 

just use firefoxes built in 'mini-google toolbar' unless you want to see pr display of course

 

I am having a prblem the whien i click shift + enter for a link in a new window....its gets really slow......so removed it :|:|:|

 

FYI I'm using "Google Pagerank Status" (v 0.9.4) extension for Firefox... it's a small standalone extension that gives you the pagerank. Works great.

 

FYI too,

I dont use this plugin. I use 'search status' extension with alexa and page rank combined.

Regards,
Tuning

 

I think that google is sleeping. Google toolbar for firefox should be written as soon as possible. In that way more people would install and stay at google toolbar and not searching something similar to google toolbar.
Google should also write this tool for opera and other internet browsers.

 

That's what this topic is about. Google did make the toolbar for Firefox themselves.

 

Can't lease my expensive computer screen real estate for this toolbar.

 

Just for the record, the person that talked about the FireFox
"'search status" extension is right on the money. This particular
extension is WAY, WAY BETTER than the Google toobar release.

Plus, it does not report your data back to Google. It combines
both the Google pagerank (accurate) and Alexa rankings, and
it is surprising how useful Alexa can be. Yeah, sure you can
inflate Alexa's understanding of your website's worth, but in
the whole, Alexa can give you an understanding of just how
popular a website really is. So, my vote is for this extension,
and throw the Google Toolbar in your recycle bin.

I mean - talk about Slow. These guys got sooo much money
from their IPO, and they are only just releasing the toolbar?
They should have just bought firefox. Oh, hold on - that's
probably what they're going to do.

The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Microsoft is dead. Long live Google.

(Sorry, had to get that bit of Google bashing out of my system).

But seriously, consider that extension. It is a lot better.

 

been using it for a few days.

it's ok i guess. Don't like how pr is displayed though

 

Donno if this has been mentioned anywhere else, but

As far as I know, FF is open source.
FF plugins are writen in Java

That means the PR algo is outthere for anyone who know how to get it.

 

I also use Firefoxes search box. I suppose I could install this to see PR. I guess it's better to have the option to use a toolbar rather than have no option at all.

 

Firefox is opensource, you can download all the code... it's written in C. I'm not sure about all plug-ins, but I think most are also written in C.

The "PR algo" as you say is just a query that the browser makes to the Google server. There's nothing fancy in it. Just a simple HTTP query like you could do by entering a URL in the browser, only the PR plug-in does it automatically for you for each page that you view. The info returned by Google for the PR query is very little... basically just the PR number (i.e., "5").

HTH
LC