Yahoo! Toolbar learns a few new tricks

Posted June 17th, 2009 at 8:07 am by Burke Culligan, Front Doors

 23 Comments / Filed in: Conferences/Events, Trends & News

Yahoo! Toolbar has always made navigating the web easier –- acting as a shortcut to search and as a way to keep track of your favorite Yahoo! sites. While that still holds true, we have noticed that people want more functionality from their toolbar, so today we are excited to share a new Yahoo! Toolbar –- one that makes it easier to stay on top of your online world no matter where you are on the web.

The new Yahoo! Toolbar now offers greater customization and more immediate access to the information you care about most from across the entire web – not just Yahoo! sites. Currently available if you’re using Internet Explorer 6+ and now for Firefox (as a beta), too, our new toolbar also helps you do some really handy things, including:

• Preview and Go: Most of us have sites we check every day –- sometimes more than once. Now you can preview information from your favorite sites directly within your toolbar. Small previews drop down from your toolbar, giving you real-time information without ever having to leave the page you’re on. Customize your toolbar with dozens of apps from Yahoo! and across the rest of the web, so you can check on your multiple email inboxes (Yahoo! and AOL), your eBay listings, the latest news from People.com or USA Today, stock portfolios, and even your local weather or movie showtimes.
• Search Faster: One of the most popular features on toolbars is search. So, we’ve created a better, more efficient way for you to conduct web searches (with the help of some cool technology from Inquisitor). The search box in your Yahoo! Toolbar now offers query suggestions, recall of sites based on your recent search history, and the ability to directly search other web sites, like Flickr and Wikipedia — right from the search box. It’s a real time saver!

By bringing the best of the web together in one place, we want to make the web work better for you – right from within your toolbar. Get started by downloading the new Yahoo! Toolbar at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/.

Burke Culligan
Senior Director, Yahoo! Front Doors

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gag | June 17th, 2009 at 8:24 am

i am sorry as an user, i am not impressed. I am infact very disappointed. All that code hours is a fact i feel.

what is this preview information of favorite sites and customize of apps from across the web these are their at yahoo.com and myyahoo i dont see anything new at toolbar.

nothing new at search too, most of the browsers offer search as a option no need of two search features.

give something new, just dont make a product.

go to the basic, ask yourself what a toolbar is and how it can be used then start from their, i dont want to do the thinking for you but i am disappointed.

matt | June 17th, 2009 at 10:26 am

Looks awesome, but it won’t let me install it on windows 7.

gag | June 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

most of the web is present in the yahoo! directory.

now for a person who has installed the yahoo! toolbar and when he is surfing the web and when he is on a domain then yahoo should connect to the yahoo! directory and show the relevant metatext as a small text strip below the toolbar.

this can be done for keywords too during search

ex: google
strip: Google allows users to search the Web for images, news, products, video, and other content.

=bg= | June 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Burke,

Real nice job on the Firefox version. Well done.

BUT..

If you try and download the new version for IE8–it crashes IE8. Every time.

And this is a LONNNNNG standing problem that I have brought to the attention of the Toolbar Dept in the past.

It simply crashes IE every time. (And it’s IE8 provided by Yahoo!) So..I can’t install it. Wish I could!

Miguel Garcia | June 17th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

So, i already comment this when i unistall the new toolbar…
One of the thinks i like the most on past version was the possibility to add my own buttons, which is no loner available.
So, as others here already said, it looks great, really out of the box, but functionality is not what i expected.
I don’t need to look for previews, if i have a button on my toolbar is because i want to go there.

So, i’ll kept last version.

Best

randy | June 17th, 2009 at 6:37 pm

i kinda like it it is kinda cool

John | June 17th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

Very interesting.

Imran Hussain | June 18th, 2009 at 4:04 am

Why doesn’t it work on Windows 7? On both Firefox and IE. I thought toolbars were browser dependent :S

kim | June 18th, 2009 at 4:40 am

looks very interesting, gonna try it ;)

Nicki Dugan | June 18th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

@=bg= & @matt – Try downloading it again. The team made some adjustments since yesterday.

=bg= | June 18th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Hi Nicki, Nope, crash-city. Sent you a screenshot. This happened with older versions, too. I could n e v e r update IE Toolbar from the site- had to resort to older versions avail on Download.com.

Deventer | June 19th, 2009 at 2:12 am

Looks cool,..

Bud a growing group of people are eager too now,…

When will the Firefox version be ready to go?

Heaving Beta is always fun,..

But it’s never really done!

Eddie Gear | June 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 am

Hi there,

Wow! that is a neat toolbar, good work on integrating those fancy stuff ;) Eventhough I don’t usually use toolbars, I just might give it a try.

Cheers,
Eddie Gear

matt | June 22nd, 2009 at 11:25 am

Still can’t download on Windows 7 (Firefox and IE).

Mike | June 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am

hi. Can you advise when it will install on Firefox 3.5? the install does not recognize the browser.. thanks!

Nicki Dugan | June 24th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

An overdue update on the Windows 7 situation… Since Windows 7 is in preview status, we’re still working on Toolbar support for it. It will be included in our second phase, which will be released soon. Stay tuned.

hannah | June 24th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

why a new one?

sapna | June 28th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Nice toolbar I have installed it.

Nicki Dugan | July 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

OK… we’ve released our Toolbar for Windows 7 and Firefox 3.5 users. Give it a try.

Armin | July 12th, 2009 at 10:32 am

Very nice toolbar. So advanced than the previous ones.

parham | October 27th, 2009 at 9:33 am

download toolbar new yahoo

John | November 30th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

I am very disappointed with Yahoo’s new home page. It is very annoying with pop up adds all over the place. You are just giving google the whole business. The page is very sloppy. I am finally done with yahoo and will be moving totally google. I don’t like google but it’s better then yahoo.

Michael | December 9th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

When I’ve downloaded the Yahoo Toolbar on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 the tool bar is not found. This is the offical release of Windows 7 on this machine

I’ve also made Yahoo.com a trusted site, along with made it a domain within the Compatibility Views section of Internet Explorer8 however, the toolbar still does not appear.

As an added measure, I went into the Add-Ons within IE8 and saw the Toolbar, and it is enabled however it still does not show up.

And FYI; everything on this box works perfectly except for Yahoo Toolbar, and yes I downloaded it from the current website “http://www.yahoo.com/toolbar”

Windows 7 released on Octber 22, 2009
Internet Explorer 8 released on March 19, 2009
Todays Date: December 09, 2009

You cannot tell me that a team of development staff cannot pump working code out in 2 months for Win7 or even 9 months for IE8. FYI: Win7 was in Beta and available to MSDE customers for over a year.