Did You use toolbar?

[CiX]

Did You use toolbar?

[progress]

No (because I hate all toolbars) :)

[SirPeterPan]

Yes, last year I used Google Toolbar for IE during some weeks. Unfortunately, Google Toolbar for IE proved to be very unstable and crashed frequently.

The only toolbar I use now is the RoboForm native toolbar (for IE and Firefox). It never crashed here.

[mvario]

Luvs me some toolbarz :argh: Got moar?

216380



kidding. No, no toolbars. I find them nasty, foul little things.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Google

[Creer]

-{ Quote: "No (because I hate all toolbars) :)" }-
+1 :thumb:

[blacknight]

No. I don't need them, and moreover I want my screen as free as is possible.

[lodore]

nope have no use for toolbars.
opera has all the features i need.

[Toby75]

No toolbars here. Any extra process running on my PC is unwanted.

[Antarctica]

-{ Quote: "No (because I hate all toolbars) :)" }-

Same for me. I think the Poll is very clear anyway...

[the Tester]

No toolbars here.
I don't see where a toolbar serves any useful purpose for me.

[GlobalForce]

If you're gonna run a toolbar, make it one you can learn from - www.seomoz.org (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-developer-toolbar-for-seo), tips.webdesign10.com (http://tips.webdesign10.com/web-developer-toolbar.htm).

[Hugger]

What are toolbars?

[leofelix]

-{ Quote: "What are toolbars?" }-


LOL ;D

Only 'google lite' add on for Firefox here (and "Customize google" of course).

As for the rest I wouldn't install toolbars even if they paid me

[Daveski17]

I once used the Google toolbar on Firefox 2. But I was younger & more stupid then & after it gave me a lot of problems I uninstalled it. Never again! :wacko:

[Noob]

Never used toolbars, i love to have a sleek browser :D

[Ibrad]

Use toolbar's every once in a while. I had Google for a while but it slowed down my browser loading time.

I once tried to download the Ask.com toolbar (yeah I had not read into the "History" of the toolbar yet) and it caused my PC to reboot ??? so that was the last time I tried a toolbar.

[Neoxellos]

Roboform toolbar.

[Threedog]

No toolbars here for me either. Less is best.

[Carver]

No,too much bloat. Toolbars are usually limited in choice of search engines and the privacy policy of the search engines offered ensure that there will be a record of my search for several years.

[google88]

google

to
spell check text

also buttons:
you tube
imdb for movies
shopping
translate
highlight for fast search of page

[1boss1]

Yes Web Developer and SEOQuake, couldn't live without them.

[STONEMAN]

none here,i like things clean and simple.

[YanK33]

no men i hate all tool bars all of them are a mess

[Daveski17]

I got a toolbar with MSN Messenger in an update as I wasn't paying attention & didn't uncheck something :o . It's on IE 8 however & I rarely use that. I just hide the damn thing. It may come in useful one day, I doubt it though somehow.

[LoneWolf]

I despise them.
When I test a new app and a toolbar is included, they both get the boot.

[icr]

No toolbars here too never thought of any need of it

[gerardwil]

I guess everyone's answer is browser related which in fact wasn't the poll question. ;)

Gerard

[Zeena]

Google

Because it's extremely useful :thumb:
Buttons for my favourite websites.
Bookmarks in case my computer breaks.. I've got my bookmarks backed up.
Spellings :-[ Very rare that I use IE ::) But when I do... Google checks my spellings for me.
Email .. Know when I've got one.

Just... Useful! ;D

[lubieplacki]

No, dont need stuff like these.

[gaslad]

I use the Web of Trust (WOT) toolbar, for its user ratings/warnings of websites.

But that is it.

[TOMxEU]

Toolbars were usefull, when they started, because they included search bar, but since it is integrated in all browsers, they just take space. Button extensions are better now.

[CiX]

Article from Downloadsquad: Microsoft states the obvious: those damn toolbars cause 70% of IE crashes (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/04/08/microsoft-states-the-obvious-those-damn-toolbars-cause-70-of-i/)

[ard14n_y]

No. They are useless.

[Bumbo]

no i hate them, and for search i just use the basic firefox google search, and the bookbar bar.

[SIR****TMG]

I use none

[Noob]

I also think toolbars are a waste of space man!!
Specially with Chrome, i like to have as much viewable space as possible and good functionality in a simple window = Chrome ;D

[John Bull]

I use Menu bar, Navigation, Bookmarks and Google toolbars.

Would not dream of being without any one of them.

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab327/johnbull17/Toolbars.jpg

[crofttk]

I use toolbar when I can't pry something open with anything else.

[roady]

I hate toolbars....I see them as a privacy and security risk,I have even windows live toolbar disabled in IE.:thumbd:

[J_L]

No toolbar except one combined toolbar with the menu, navigation, and open/maximize/close buttons on my Firefox. It's very customized only showing essential parts and combined all menus to a button.
Also have an All-in-One Sidebar full of bookmarklets.

I have a 24-inch widescreen.

[Mr.PC]

I am Allergic to...Toolbars...;D

[xandros]

no i dont like it

[Boyfriend]

I hate toolbars.

[YanK33]

toolbars are a obstructive i hate them as much i hate ads

[Ibrad]

I use my own custom coded ones.

[Sully]

I wonder then, who does use them? They are like the plague I think.

Sul.

[Hugger]

What do you use in placw of the toolbars?
Can you post a picture of your browser sans toolbats?
Thanks.

[gerardwil]

I still use 4 toolbars with Opera.

[njespo]

i don't like them

[mrgigabyte]

nope have no use for toolbars also

[Woodgiant]

The only toolbar I use now is the RoboForm toolbar, otherwise I think that toolbars is a waste of monitor screen.
Best Regards.

[Ibrad]

For the first time in a while I installed a toolbar (yahoo) and in my personal opinion it does not take us as much space as older versions have. Then again last time I used one it was a really old version.

[ExtremeGamerBR]

I not use toolbars! :thumbd:

[chrisretusn]

NO!

Wait, I should have said yes. Navigation Toolbar and Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. ;D

I bet I am not alone.... ;)

[cgeek]

No. They have no use!

[AvinashR]

I don't use toolbars .. Reason, because i feel bit annoying.

[YanK33]

tool bars are for idiots, tool bars are part of an outdated browsers we can do all that stuff with extensions in the mayor browsers and without block the screen view, come on tool bars should disappear ☺

[Warlockz]

Most Toolbars are SpyWare/Adware all they do is broadcast everything you do, in turn slow down your machine, some go as far as to create AD popups.

Why do you think they pay to include Toolbars in different software, Its because they get paid to collect all of your data for marketing research ect, so where is your $check$ for giving them your user data?

people always say I don't have nothing to hide, but its not about hiding anything, its about slowing down your machine, and letting them get payed for their data mining.

But their are some usefull toolbars as chrisretusn pointed out, like lastpass toolbar, just don't get them confused, you mainly want to stay away from search engine toolbars, or the retarded ones your ISP tries to install when you use their installation cd to activate the modem, just activate the modem then do a system restore to get rid of all their trash. that's what I did lol

[cgeek]

@Warlockz
+1 :thumb:

[SIR****TMG]

I use no toolbars

[Saint Satin Stain]

No, they watch you.

[tpro]

No (I just don't like toolbars) :(

[cm1971]

No! I hate toolbars. They take up space that could be used to display more of the page. I also agree with those that brought up the spyware aspect of toolbars.

[Tony]

I only use the Roboform toolbar.
The only toolbar i cannot surf without :thumb:

[Carver]

No..Most of the time toolbars duplicate functions that can be done more efficiently by other parts of the browser or other parts of the Computer. Besides the points already mentioned.

[CloneRanger]

Never :)

I'm always amazed when i see some other peoples comps. Inches of screen area taken away with multiple TB's :o

Some people ;D

[stackz]

No, but I do use a crowbar on anyone that installs a toolbar on my PC.

[CiX]

-{ Quote: "No, but I do use a crowbar on anyone that installs a toolbar on my PC." }-
LOL ;D

[Kernelwars]

-{ Quote: "Never :)

I'm always amazed when i see some other peoples comps. Inches of screen area taken away with multiple TB's :o

Some people ;D" }- Some ppl indeed;D

[Noob]

-{ Quote: "No, but I do use a crowbar on anyone that installs a toolbar on my PC." }-
LOL :thumb:
HAHAHAHA

[Fiat_Lux]

-{ Quote: "Luvs me some toolbarz :argh: Got moar?

216380



kidding. No, no toolbars. I find them nasty, foul little things." }-

Yeah maybe you are kidding , but the picture you sent looked like the IE browser on a computer I had to fix a short while back.
It was this guy and his kid of which neither understands much PC so they had just installed , installed , installed and installed without any real understanding of what they were doing. So when I opened the IE on one of the computers then it looked quite a lot like your picture. I was sitting almost grabbing my head.
Oh yeah ! , and I really hate almost all toolbars too.... (haven't got a single one on my IE browser , if not counting the annoyance "google search" top right...)

[Fiat_Lux]

-{ Quote: "If you're gonna run a toolbar, make it one you can learn from - www.seomoz.org (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-developer-toolbar-for-seo), tips.webdesign10.com (http://tips.webdesign10.com/web-developer-toolbar.htm)." }-

This is just so funny : so I go to webdesign10.com to see what the webdesign10 toolbar "buzz"/"fuzz" is about and I got shown the pop up seen on the screen shot shown below (and the darn thing continued popping up more times...)
223159

[safeguy]

Not all toolbars are bad like some think but most are plain useless. Worse still, some invades upon privacy 'behind the scenes' without you realizing it. Most of us here know those common names...

-{ Quote: "No..Most of the time toolbars duplicate functions that can be done more efficiently by other parts of the browser or other parts of the Computer. Besides the points already mentioned." }-

Agreed to the max.

P.S. I'm very much 'allergic' to Ask toolbar especially...while I consider the others the 'lesser of the evils':P

[The_ChamP]

no use for a toolbar

[siberianwolf]

never used, always despised'em. that's why.

[Osaban]

-{ Quote: "Never :)

I'm always amazed when i see some other peoples comps. Inches of screen area taken away with multiple TB's :o

Some people ;D" }-

None here. Screen space is particularly valuable with netbooks.

[littlebits]

I hate most toolbars, but I do use Yahoo Toolbar because of I use most of Yahoo services and I love the online bookmarks that I can access from any system once I sign on to Yahoo.

Thanks.:)

[Athletic]

No toolbars...takes screen space, slows down browsing, some of them are tracking victim...

[superhacker]

I use chrome so no need for toolbars ;)

[NRProia]

Hello,

I use McAfee SiteAdvisor, Norton Safe Web, and Google Toolbar all resized to fit on a single row.

Regards,

Nathan

[nikanthpromod]

no. i hate toolbars>:(

[travelerRoute80]

No. Because I don't like any kind of toolbars.

[Spysnake]

Why... why would I? I hate them. I really haven't ever seen a toolbar that is useful enough to keep installed.

(It is possible that work in IT-support may impact my judgement)

[twl845]

I want all the real estate I can get. Toolbars take up screen space and from experience in earlier days, are a pain. :P

[ExtremeGamerBR]

Now, I use Norton Safe Web/Identity Safe.

[Trooper]

-{ Quote: "I want all the real estate I can get. Toolbars take up screen space and from experience in earlier days, are a pain. :P" }-

Same reason why I do not use them.

I also hate them. :D

[NRProia]

-{ Quote: "I want all the real estate I can get. Toolbars take up screen space and from experience in earlier days, are a pain. :P" }-

Hello,

Toolbars take up a lot of space in Firefox where it's hard to resize them. I use IE9, so if you look at my screen capture that is attached to this reply, you'll notice that they don't take up too much space.

Regards,

Nathan

[philby]

-{ Quote: "Same reason why I do not use them.

I also hate them. :D" }-
+1 :)

[mrpink]

I hate them too :thumbd: