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Google Toolbar for Firefox released, other extensions join the party
by Jordan Running Jul 7th 2005 at 7:18PM
As expected, Google rolled out Google Toolbar for Firefox today, which can now be downloaded. Unexpectedly, though, they've released two other extensions as well: Google Send to Phone, which allows you to send snippeds of web sites as text messages, and Google Suggest, which adds the suggest-as-you-type functionality of services of the same name to Firefox's Search box.
Google Send to Phone is interesting, because all it does is send you (and the text you've highlighted) to this page, which makes for easy semi-anonymous text-messaging. The whole thing could easily have been accomplished with a bookmarklet rather than an extension, but I suppose having the cell phone icon in your toolbar is kind of neat.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Thomas said 8:37PM on 7-07-2005
This is great because it has spell check built in too! So far, I'm impressed. :)
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CustomizeGoogle said 9:21AM on 7-08-2005
Today I released CustomizeGoogle 0.21 for Firefox with the following features:
- use Google Suggest when you search
- add links to competitors ("Try your search on Yahoo...")
- rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
- remove image copying restrictions in Google Print
- secure Gmail, switch to https
- anonymize your Google userid
- remove ads (disabled by default)
- add counter in search result
- add link to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
- remove spam from search results
- 6 locales: en-US, sv-SE, de-DE, it-IT, tr-TR, ja-JP
CustomizeGoogle now have more than 500000 downloads. #2 Popular downloaded extension at https://addons.mozilla.org
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eliot.hackaday said 2:38PM on 7-08-2005
A hack-a-day sent in how to install this on Deer Park (firefox nightly builds) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Firefox-Extensions/browse_thread/thread/74689099d0a85dbf/c3eb36e0c4a6f509?hl=en#c3eb36e0c4a6f509
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akatroll said 8:12AM on 9-13-2005
google has done it again, too bad this is for US only, so i went on to find some other way and i saw zyb at http://www.zdnet.com.au/downloads/0,39024478,39125142s,00.htm . this one is all over the world
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