Firefox gets officie loan Google Toolbar
Firefox-users have there long on must wait, but shortly is it so far: the official Google Toolbar for Firefox will most likely this week launched become. That appeared from an e-mail of Google to the developers of the open source-alternative GoogleBar.
The Google Toolbar joins Explore a work beam closed at Internet, get so that internet users immediate entry till advanced missing tasks and positions as spellings control and automatically translate of webpage's. Users of alternative browsers remained as yet in the cold stand. FireFox-users could already source in the right place by GoogleBar, an open source-version that the positions of the official Google Toolbar for Internet Explore imitates on the FireFox-platform.
Only in that comes shortly change. In an e-mailtje to the developers of GoogleBar, the search engine announces the coming of an official version of Google Toolbar for Firefox.
In the mailtje of Google-engineer Fritz Schneider, seven July is named as possible launch date. According to Schneider, the browser add will be-on then available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.2 and 'Linux 8.0 +', a reference to single known Linux-distributions.
In the message, all co-workers at GoogleBar become thanks for their efforts. As a token of appreciation, Google will remain maintain a shady to the GoogleBar-project, also after the official launch of the Google Toolbar for FireFox. “That way can surfers self decide which toolbar they install,” stands there in the message to read.
Striking is the question of Google at the co-workers of GoogleBar temporarily not with the press to speak, and to wait with comment until the search engine self the media have informed. A bewuste set of Google it newly in a haze of mystery to wrap, good knowing that the message surely leaked becomes - a little always good is for a little extra publicity”
Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Search Engine Watch, criticizes in its blog meanwhile the pr-machine of Google: “In the past became the launch of a beta and the definitive version applied round until twice closed the attentions of the press to establish on the same product. Now state the counter already on three: firstly an accidental leak, then the betaversie and then the final version.”
Renai LeMay, socraweb UK