Yahoo Ships Toolbar for Leading Open Source Browser
Sunday, 13 February 2005Yahoo! Inc. a leading global Internet company, today announced the beta release of the Yahoo! Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Awarded the "Editor's Choice" by CNet and ranked the most popular toolbar on the Web , 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. "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 again lose your bookmarks when you switch browsers or log 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 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 a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13 languages.
Source: W3 Reports
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