Whatever Happened To Browser Toolbars?

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Remember toolbars? In the 2000s, toolbars were everywhere. You had toolbars for search, eCommerce, torrents, shortcuts, and basically everything else under the sun. And who could forget bloatware toolbars that would get installed when you were trying to install something completely different. Fun fact, Google’s own toolbar was bundled in with a bunch of other software, and it was what largely put Google on the map originally. But, over the years, toolbars have basically completely disappeared. It’s easy to write this off as just technology that was no longer useful and for the most part obsolete but there’s actually much more to the story. You see, both the rise and fall of toolbars can be attributed to a single company that had more control over toolbars than any other: Google. When Google launched Chrome, they no longer needed people to use their toolbars or any toolbar for that matter. So, they simply didn’t support toolbars, and as people slowly moved over to Chrome, toolbars completely faded away. This video tells the story of the rise and fall of toolbars and Google’s massive role in the whole ordeal.
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0:00 - Toolbars
2:10 - Toolbars Make Their Debut
6:31 - Toolbars Takeover
10:14 - Google Puts Down Toolbars
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@brianm6965 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars weren’t originally called “Ribbons” They were called toolbars. “Ribbons” saw a lot of use after Office 2007 was introduced.

@W7WIL 7 месяцев назад

Glad someone said it. I had to turn off the video after hearing that incorrect statement. Toolbars existed in original versions of Windows.

@JaybeePenaflor 7 месяцев назад

Technically speaking, ribbon was an alternate term for toolbars in the 90s. The term was used by Microsoft Word 5.5. However, the term toolbar became more common. When Office 2007 was introduced, the new UI introduced tabbed toolbars that Microsoft called "the ribbon." It's really not ribbons but one ribbon with tabs. So today, "ribbon" interface refers to tabbed toolbars instead of one horizontal toolbar that stacks on top of or right next to each other.

@katrinabryce 7 месяцев назад

@@W7WIL Yes, Paint in Windows 1 had a toolbar, that was in 1985.

@jcpenny3606 7 месяцев назад

The desktop "toolbar" wasn't quite the same thing as the browser's toolbar. Desktop apps' toolbars were simply a long row of icons that served as shortcuts to commonly used functions. The browser's toolbar, on the other hand, had different features like weather forecast, a search bar, drop down menus, news ticker, and shortcut links. Yes, ribbons replaced the simple strip toolbar in 2007. I didn't like it at first, I thought it was ugly looking and cluttered with too many things, but I've grew to accept it.

@JaybeePenaflor 7 месяцев назад

@@jcpenny3606 Exactly

@zoande83 7 месяцев назад

Now toolbars are the virus you download as a 10 yr old while trying to download free games

@MicrosoftGuy 7 месяцев назад

Wen I was 10 years old probably I downloaded more torrents than Disney’s movies 😂😂

@lajya01 7 месяцев назад

Or a 70 yr old. I still have have to remove them from my parents computers from time to time but thank god, it's not the pain in the ass it was in the IE days.

@PFnove 7 месяцев назад

chrome was made in 2008 but my dumbass in 2017 was completely unaware of it's existance and used internet explorer daily (and i downloaded so much bloatware that it was actually hard to see the webpage because of all the stacked toolbars)

@bunnybootsink9258 7 месяцев назад

Oh divine, this brings back memories of de-infesting kids' computers of that stuff.

@BG101UK 7 месяцев назад

@@bunnybootsink9258 I still have my daughter's childhood machine here. It needs a few new capacitors and all the toolbars removing .. though I'll probably just leave it as an "archive" of past times as I set up a dual-boot with Linux anyway and won't be actually using the Windows (xp!) side of it or its browser. (When I replace those electrolytics).

@orionarclight 7 месяцев назад

I remember malware that'd install bloat bars and wouldn't let you disable them if you weren't tech savvy

@mrkitty777 7 месяцев назад

Nostalgia 😊

@GrubbsandWyrm 7 месяцев назад

Learning to remove toolbars was the first time I began learning how to do my own tech supporr

@mchenrynick 7 месяцев назад

I remember installing malware on Firefox that made it's normal toolbar line disappear. Luckily I found the file and deleted it. The browser's top went back to normal when I reopened it.

@jasongomez5344 7 месяцев назад

I remember Bonzi Buddy.

@GrubbsandWyrm 7 месяцев назад

@@jasongomez5344 bad nostalgia lol

@graywz 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars predate ribbons by a long way. Ribbons appeared in Office 2007. Toolbars were around for many years before that.

@cosmosofinfinity 7 месяцев назад

I still prefer Office without the ribbons

@user-ck2gg9ik9c 7 месяцев назад

At 3:20 you said that "toolbars were originally called ribbons"... that is not true. The ribbon was a Microsoft Office feature that came out long after toolbars were in use. Just a small correction from someone who was there. Great videos.

@bendybruce 7 месяцев назад

Yeah those toolbars were completely out of control. It got to the point where there was hardly any scream left for the actual web page lol

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Yep hahaha

@migovas1483 7 месяцев назад

I think I installed one ONCE, and that was it... I started to be aware of bloatware at the time, very early 2000, started using win2000 and such, I wanted to have the bare minimum, and no make up, people were 'ok' with all the bloatware back then. It was really a nightmare using other people's computer...

@MewsicalMiqo 7 месяцев назад

Hello, I happen to be the creator of the screenshot shown at 0:18. It's funny to find your meme alive and well on the internet 20 years later. To provide some context, the screenshot was taken on a high school computer lab PC. I got bored during programming class one day and decided to see how many toolbars IE would allow me to display. That screenshot answers the question. It was a harmless exercise as all changes are wiped upon reboot. Sorry to disappoint anyone fooled into believing that it was someone's real browser interface though.

@freshmagnettv 7 месяцев назад

Damn man and here I was thinking it was photoshoped. Surely, so many toolbars can't exist at the same time but...😂😂😂😂

@mrkitty777 7 месяцев назад

It looks very useful 👌 👍

@logicalfundy 7 месяцев назад

Funny thing is, I did once see somebody with about as many toolbars installed. Most people didn't but I suppose there was the occasional outlier.

@RanaRandom 7 месяцев назад

I remember that one ages ago pleasure to meet you. Memories

@MewsicalMiqo 7 месяцев назад

Nice to meet you@@RanaRandom

@Default78334 7 месяцев назад

Chrome's Omnibox and tab-to-search functionality were absolute game changers compared to what came before and made navigation so much easier that there was no reason to mess with toolbars. Those two features caused me to switch from Firefox when Chrome first released.

@LegioXXI 7 месяцев назад

Chrome wasn't the first browser to do that...

@Default78334 7 месяцев назад

@@LegioXXI At the time I was using Firefox which didn't have either as native functionality. Search was in a separate box from navigation and it didn't have anything equivalent to tab-to-search. Maybe another smaller browser possibly had both of those function back in the day, but it's not one that had much if any market awareness.

@johnchristian7788 7 месяцев назад

@@Default78334 What is tab to search? I searched Google and can't find any relevant result

@Bob.martens 7 месяцев назад

Bye, privacy.

@steeviebops 7 месяцев назад

I hate the omnibox and derivatives, even in Firefox I reinstate the search box and disable search from the address bar. It doesn't suit my use case, there's been many a time I've tried to access a URL (especially an internal one) and it ends up searching for it instead.

@ezarui 7 месяцев назад

your video just unlock old memory xD i remember accidentally installed those bloatware toolbar and scared if i just put virus on my computer then after sometime i figure out that i can uninstall or disable that tool bar i feel nostalgic all of sudden haha

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

I think we can all relate hahaha

@RandomKSandom 7 месяцев назад

3:18 The "Ribbon" terminology didn't come into play until MS Office 2007, many years after browser toolbars were common (late 90s and early 2000s), and it was actually a derivation from the toolbars that Office already had. The ribbon based interfaces are still passionately argued about to this day because they are so fricken clunky compared to menus and toolbars. But they do have their merits. Namely merging menus and toolbars into one cohesive interface. If you would have had several toolbars, a ribbon interface can use less screen real estate. Otherwise, they use a lot more.

@mariokarter13 7 месяцев назад

>Appstore created >"Why do we need toolbars? Why not just make apps for the browser?" >Browser Extensions are born

@Appletank8 7 месяцев назад

they do seem like the logical successor. Roughly similar functionality without eating up screen real estate, and (some) curation in place to minimize bloat or malware.

@logicalfundy 7 месяцев назад

I actually remember seeing somebody with toolbars taking up most of their browser and asking if they really used all of them and they said yes. Boy was it an eyesore and I can't imagine trying to the the web with so little space for the page itself. I don't think I ever had more than 2 toolbars installed. Considering how demanding they were of screen real estate - I'm glad they eventually got replaced with extensions instead.

@StraightcheD 7 месяцев назад

I tend to think of ribbons as being a fairly recent invention which challenged the age-old menu bar. Toolbars, on the other hand, have been around forever in various forms.

@lilmamaxyungpapa 7 месяцев назад

Yes, he's wrong, ribbons and toolbars are not the same, and ribbons was introduced to office apps in 2007 (i may be wrong with the exact year but still)

@RandomKSandom 7 месяцев назад

@@lilmamaxyungpapaYou are correct :-)

@katrinabryce 7 месяцев назад

@@lilmamaxyungpapa Yes, it was Office 2007, which was released in 2007, but there were beta releases in 2006 with the Ribon.

@jonnanieminen8848 7 месяцев назад

Actually they were called toolbars before ribbons but you maybe too young to remember. Microsoft introduded ribbons in 2007. Before that year everybody talked about toolbars. Google first introduced browser toolbar in 2000 so clearly browser toolbars existed about 7 years before ribbons

@NazmusLabs 7 месяцев назад

No actually it was originally called ribbons in the early 90s. A few years ago I was playing with the old version of Microsoft Word on Windows 3.1. And Word referred to the toolbars as a Ribbon. So in reality: we went from ribbon, to toolbars, to ribbon. Of course, today the ribbon refers to a specific type of tabbed toolbars. May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.

@jonnanieminen8848 7 месяцев назад

@@NazmusLabs Ok, you are right about that Word version having ribbons but it had also toolbars. And in the 80s at least MacOS had toolbars

@NazmusLabs 7 месяцев назад

@@jonnanieminen8848 fair enough toolbars > ribbon > toolbars > ribbon 🙃

@ttrev007 7 месяцев назад

@@NazmusLabs i was thinking the same thing as jonnanieminen8848, but my memories started around windows 95 so i would have missed windows 3.1.

@dragons_advocate 7 месяцев назад

Not quite -- Toolbars were around before Google's. They just made the most recognizable one.

@ivory_lion 7 месяцев назад

It's important to point out that before Chrome (I think Chrome was the first to my memory anyway), the address bar was just an address bar. I'm sure it could be inferred, but rolling the search into the address bar made toolbars mostly moot as it became the standard

@MagnusAnand 7 месяцев назад

Office Ribbons came in 2007 btw

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Oh really? My bad then

@Derekzparty 7 месяцев назад

I never used toolbars even back in the 90s! My 17" crt monitor was small enough!

@rotshepherd3817 7 месяцев назад

I am a 90's kid but I still hated the toolbars and all the other buttons. when i wanted to hit my search bar i could go to another website accidentally by pressing one pixel off. Back then internet was so slow you would have to wait for a solid minute.

@migovas1483 7 месяцев назад

ah yes, the loading of JPG and gif , pixel, by pixel...

@pb25193 7 месяцев назад

I'm saying this because I've loved your channel so far. Peddling investment apps is a major red flag AND a double edged sword. Pls be careful.

@funnyman4744 7 месяцев назад

its his own app, if you look back in the comments hes been developing it for a while

@pb25193 7 месяцев назад

@@funnyman4744 that's cool. I just don't want these things to blow up in the creators face later

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Yeah really appreciate the concern and feedback man. It’s not a 3rd party app though. It’s our own platform :)

@pb25193 7 месяцев назад

@@LogicallyAnswered thanks for answering logically. Apologies if I missed that in your ad. I quickly fast-forward the ad as soon as I hear "omg inflation omg unemployed!", just my subconscious defense mechanism. Maybe the entrance can be "less threatening" if that makes sense.

@jerbear7952 7 месяцев назад

For someone that loves his channel you sure complain on it a lot while declaring you skip his ads denying him revenue.

@annieworroll4373 7 месяцев назад

Back in 2006 or 2007 Yahoo released an update for their IE toolbar... that caused IE to immediately close when launched. I was on an ISP help desk at the time, it was a slow night with most of our techs just sitting their socializing to hundreds of calls in the queue in seconds.

@Sergio_Loureiro 7 месяцев назад

1:04 this is wrong. At that time, some browsers received money from Google, to have a text field to directly input searches to Google. The old Opera was perhaps the most known example of this.

@JonathanWrightSA 7 месяцев назад

Legend has it, little Billy is still trying to uninstall the Babylon Toolbar he accidentally installed in 2006.

@sumithbhat 7 месяцев назад

Damn, this feels nostalgic. I think the main memory associated with toolbars is just bloat bars for most people.

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, unfortunately so

@marioalexanderski9598 7 месяцев назад

Didn't Office ribbons come out later than toolbars?

@DannerBanks 7 месяцев назад

Yes, he got it wrong. The office ribbon came out in 2007

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Oops my bad

@marioalexanderski9598 7 месяцев назад

@@LogicallyAnswered I don't want to be "that guy", but it'd be a good idea to rework the video so non-techie prople won't get the wrong idea. Otherwise, tech-savy people would see them as ignorant people.

@potato1341 7 месяцев назад

the top half of my browser was full of like 8 of these at one point. In my defence, I was about 7-8 years old and also had no idea what they did or how I got them. What I DO know is one of them gave me the option to permanently change my mouse cursor and I loved it.

@robitaill3 7 месяцев назад

I used to absolutely cringe when I saw someone else’s computer and they had at least one. Like the only proper usage of a toolbar is to delete it.

@Sollace 7 месяцев назад

3:21 Toolbars were not ribbons. Ribbons is the UI design Microsoft came up with in office to replace toolbars. Browser toolbars also predate ribbons by at least 5 years.

@Unduplicatable 7 месяцев назад

Community toolbars that weren’t ugly but were actually convenient and productive for everyone were awesome, but quickly died off as people stopped communicating.

@darkhero77 7 месяцев назад

as a software developer back then, we call it "toolbars" the ribbon ui came much later, ms office popularized it much much later.

@Dantee52 7 месяцев назад

Bro you are one of the best creators on this platform! Keep it up!

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Dante!

@CMDRSweeper 7 месяцев назад

The toolbars and bad software was especially rampant in Norway. During this era, Java Runtime for the browser was a REQUIREMENT to log in to do your banking. And of course with the vulnerabilities that it had as well as the frequent updates, the banks were eager to link to the update utility to get it installed, but never said a word about that extra tickbox you had to untick to avoid the software avalanche. You got 1 thing that then opened up for installing more things that installed more things, the longer it got to run, the more bloatware and possibly malware you would get. All because the user forgot to untick that one box when updating their required Java Runtime... Today it is gone though, and the issues vanished.

@chsovi7164 7 месяцев назад

Comparing toolbars to microsoft office ribbons seems incorrect. Ribbons weren't really a thing until office 2007 and toolbars had started to die long before that. Toolbars had been referred to as ribbons before that (not due to office) but office 2007 kinda changed the meaning of the word to mean a toolbar that was like the one in office 2007

@ginwilliams4202 7 месяцев назад

Browser toolbars are gone, but Browser Extensions are more more popular than ever. Adblock/Ublock, Video Downloader, etc,

@XerShadowTail 7 месяцев назад

Seeing that screenshot with the thousand toolbars feels me with so much pain and dread, so glad that such things are gone now.

@themonkhinekie3243 7 месяцев назад

please make more video. I enjoy watching your vids. very informative the the years back that we are unaware coz were just child.. more documentaries=more knowledge

@rainmaker2754 7 месяцев назад

I've been subscribed since around 20k, and we all knew at that time you would get millions of subs eventually with these cool videos

@JohnDeBrazen 6 месяцев назад

I literally forgot about these. As soon as Google Chrome took over they just faded into obscurity. The address bar worked as a search engine and it had autocorrect, which made the 15 year old me immediately prefer it

@jonahblock 7 месяцев назад

No lie, your site is one of the best things going on RU-vid with real information instead of gossip, click bate and drama

@professional.commentator 6 месяцев назад

I didn't start using those browser toolbars until about the early 2010s. And I think it was because some programs forced it on my computer in bloatware style. I never liked any of them, except for the RU-vid one. That one was pretty cool and I would watch popular RU-vid videos while being on another website.

@Random_user_8472 7 месяцев назад

A lot of toolbars were total malware and/or adware, same with the 'money tree' and many more things in the earlier days of the public internet. It taught me how to clean my pc and how to maintain it, without using expensive software. The good old days, when we used illegal copies of Nero burning rom to make more illegal copies of cd's. Later I used Clone CD with a Plextor cd burner, this combo made it possible to make 1:1 copies of copy protected games (it could take a few hours though)🥰

@philipmurphy2 7 месяцев назад

Google Toolbar actually had some great features at the time but fallen out of favour over time.

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Yep, just a different era

@jdnaveen321 7 месяцев назад

Opera and uc browser are my go to for so long back in time using my phone

@davidl.e5203 7 месяцев назад

With the amount of ads on today's webpage, they are basically toolbars from the 2000s

@Pranjal446 7 месяцев назад

0:24 I miss the good old days of tesla toolbar

@IceBlueLugia 7 месяцев назад

Yeah I thought that was weird lmao

@DannerBanks 7 месяцев назад

Hey Hari, the ribbon in office came out in 2007, well after toolbars were available on browsers. Just fyi

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Oops, my bad Danner

@grijsjegaming 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting video! I have heard and seen things that I never knew existed!

@austinvanderpool 7 месяцев назад

The thumbnail absolutely SENT me 😭😭🤣

@jasongomez5344 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars were not originally called Ribbons. Ribbons were something that replaced toolbars in Office 2007 (IIRC) and I don't remember them being popular when they first appeared as people weren't used to them and thought they were ugly.

@Yngvarfo 7 месяцев назад

I did find my father's browser browser half full of toolbars once. He'd just gotten into the habit of answering "yes" and leaving all checkboxes in the default when installing anything, because he wouldn't understand what any of those options meant.

@zakem 7 месяцев назад

Well, I’m excited for this vid!

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

Glad to hear that man!

@DannerBanks 7 месяцев назад

Some extensions feel like new toolbars ... If you ever tried to get a Firefox extension for downloading RU-vid videos, you know what I'm talking about

@RandomGeometryDashStuff 7 месяцев назад

are you talking about old pre-quantum firefox? new firefox uses webextension format that doesn't support toolbars

@ImARealHumanPerson 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars were an easy way to tell if my parents had a virus 😅

@rfvtgbzhn 7 месяцев назад

3:24 actually many old users of MS Office didlike the ribbons, as they were different thab the old interface and some of the icons where much too big, so there was less of the interface immediatly available than in Office 2003 and if you had a low display resolution or didn't use the Office application in fullscreen, they also made the area available for the actual document considerably smaller.

@RanaRandom 7 месяцев назад

I remember those, particularly the ones called *HOTBAR* and *WINAMP* . The others were bundled with spyware.

@MegasXLR 7 месяцев назад

Say what you will but looking back at it now I'm glad they were there when they were - just nice memories from those years (not with the toolbars lol) I feel the same with bugs in old video games, to me they're not bugs but ways to cheat the game without cheating :D

@bruce-le-smith 7 месяцев назад

omg that thumbnail has me really triggered lol, good work Hari. late 90s, so much power, so little rizz

@MrDaAsif 7 месяцев назад

I remember how blown away I was when you could put search queries into the address bar itself. Talk about unlocking a core memory

@PottedInvis 7 месяцев назад

RIP Toolbars

@Darkspawn6666 7 месяцев назад

Chillout with the music lmao

@Andredias164 6 месяцев назад

Toolbars were a pain in the ass back then.

@ThatGreenSpy 6 месяцев назад

Toolbars were phased out in favor of extensions.

@userMB1 7 месяцев назад

0:20 Oh my God! What the hell is that monstrosity!

@krisreddish3066 7 месяцев назад

I remember a time that you could tell how many viruses folks had by looking at how crazy the browser toolbars were. :P

@Tretheperson 7 месяцев назад

I wish there was a browser where you could do something similar to toolbars but there only on the new tab page, like it could be packed but only be on the new tab page so it doesn't annoy you.

@RandomKSandom 7 месяцев назад

Firefox behaves like that by default. I think Vivaldi, and possibly Opera do too. I find it annoying, so it's one of the first things I turn off on a fresh install.

@rudranewaz6664 7 месяцев назад

Nice topic i forgot about it.... I had so many stacked toolbars

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

For real hahaha

@geekmeee 7 месяцев назад

I think we all went through the phase of having more than we intended 😮

@doublesushi5990 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars dipped since bird brains don't know how to use tools.

@babyburhan6 7 месяцев назад

W video, Logically a huge W video, aint no way cap fr ong also im waiting for

@chuchuabe1723 7 месяцев назад

refeshing. thanx a lot!

@jsnsk101 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars were that magical thing that wasnt there last night when you were looking at internet boobies, but now were right there on the screen.

@repetitivethinking 7 месяцев назад

the ultimate grandma experience

@pcs9518 7 месяцев назад

I had malware and virus anxiety from the video image with all those toolbars 😂

@Ibhenriksen 7 месяцев назад

It really starts with the downfall of the desktop PC for browsing the internet. Most of the browsing is done with a phone or tablet and the PC is for mostly gaming now.

@ClingyParasite 7 месяцев назад

every free install program had a toolbar install added to it back in the day

@ChiefGyk3D 7 месяцев назад

I stopped needing a toolbar when Firefox had a built in search engine

@nonsuch 7 месяцев назад

I still use the bookmark toolbar everyday and have been for the last 30+ years.

@jacekatalakis8316 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars make me think of the one ep of the IT Crowd with Jen's laptop being infested with them, which was accurate to how some people, even in corporate settings, had their machines set up

@UtsukShah9 7 месяцев назад

Hi Hari, I have been watching your channel for like a year, its been a really really fun ride, thanks for your hard work :) but Im only writing a comment when its I have something negative to say.. sorry! Were you uploading this frequently before? I am slowly finding your videos just starting to be a tad bit lazy! the questions you are answering are just simply nostaligia for millenials now. perhaps the topics you are covering is someting im familiar with, and so I cmplain. I'd like you to take your time on uploads, and explore more "interesting" titles.. yeah sorry for being vague here. again, Thanks man, keep it up

@Keullo-eFIN 7 месяцев назад

"good" old days.. I remember that my ex-girlfriend had her netbook with dozens of toolbars and full of other bloatware. Literally took hours to clean that slow machine.

@TimEssDub 7 месяцев назад

Microsoft did not invent the ribbon until 2010, after toolbars fell out of favor. I remember downloading a couple of these toolbars back in the early 2000s then reading an article about spyware in PC Magazine. I uninstalled those toolbars immediately and used one of the recommended tools in the issue, which rooted out some more spyware.

@cyxceven 7 месяцев назад

They became extensions. Look at all the shopping add-ons you can get for browsers.

@davinp 7 месяцев назад

With Microsoft killing Internet Explorer, Google finally discontinued it's toolbar for Internet Explorer

@aitinsights 7 месяцев назад

rip toolbars!

@kelvinchin5942 7 месяцев назад

After the story, damn, I stay even closer with Mozilla now. No other reason but don't want to see companies like Google or Microsoft dominant the web, that's crazy

@razzenvythebest9248 7 месяцев назад

This music is honestly hilarious

@PronatorTendon 7 месяцев назад

An old buddy who had no clue about computers used to have a ton of porn search bars and add ons from dozens of websites. I just looked at him and said "you know better than this" 😂

@lajya01 7 месяцев назад

Notifications are now the new toolbars

@Grogueman 7 месяцев назад

Is there any way I can get that vinatge UI in 2023 browsers? If someoneknows, please respond.

@geekmeee 7 месяцев назад

🤦‍♂️ The internet has entered the ‘Remember when’ phase.

@The-Cat 7 месяцев назад

Everything always does for everyone... It's called aging 😂

@lawrencepsteele 7 месяцев назад

I had forgotten about toolbars. I think I must've intentionally repressed that memory because I remember them taking up precious screen real estate while not bring much else to the table. Think about it this way, if I spend 2% of my time actively searching, that means for 98% of my browsing time, the toolbar has zero functionality while blocking a non-insignificant portion of my viewport. It's much worse if I had multiple installed. What a mess those could be.

@glennaround 7 месяцев назад

Recently you posted an opinion of ads/ adblock for Google to raise money. If Google thought about this issue seriously they would be charging people who post on RU-vid. Memory is expensive, not to mention the maintenance of the servers and other peripherals required to host videos. The charges could be a percentage of what each person earns. The free ride should be over.

@rtothec1234 7 месяцев назад

*And up comes the toolbar… that’s what she said.* 😏

@damoddiver 7 месяцев назад

It was the introduction of the omnibox that killed the toolbar.

@joyhappiness 7 месяцев назад

they died a quick death when i found out they could ackshually be viruses hiding in plain sight in 2004. never installed another toolbar ever again

@teawa_ 7 месяцев назад

Gotta admire how Google played the long game, now Microsoft edge is built on chromium

@blindlemoneyesTheBunny 7 месяцев назад

Surprised that extensions are a near equivalent to toolbars

@jerbear7952 7 месяцев назад

It was nice when you could check page rank

@jaydub8085 7 месяцев назад

They're all integrated into Windows now. Called "telemetry".

@capitanodessa7472 7 месяцев назад

Omigosh omigosh, I remember! They were SO useless! I loved having lots of them!

@LogicallyAnswered 7 месяцев назад

😂

@geekmeee 7 месяцев назад

Toolbars weren’t useless… They were gateways for advertisers 😂

@EnvyTheRealest 7 месяцев назад

Honestly, I hated toolbars on my browser. I would disable it if an application installed one without me knowing. It just makes the browser look ugly and some of them would be bloated making the browser crash sometimes

@adriancoanda9227 6 месяцев назад

now we have extensions which have same functions as toolbars. honestly y never installed such cause the poor Ie barely opened alone and with toolbars on low spec machines well.