September 29, 2008 by Matt Thomas
In December last year Google launched Google Toolbar Five – a package of new features for toolbar. These features included the useful ‘Autofill’ that allows you to create and save several different profiles of personal/business information like addresses, credit card numbers etc. This allows you to fill out an online application form by simply clicking the Autofill button.
Another popular feature was Google Gadgets, the point of which was to bring information from your personal favourite sites closer to you, via a ‘gadget’ at the top of your screen. The gadget allows you to search those sites in a small window, which pops down from the toolbar without leaving the screen you are on.
The only problem with these useful innovations was that they were only available to Internet Explorer users.
That shortcoming was finally rectified last week, at a launch in St Petersburg, where the package was made available to Mozilla Firefox users in 29 different languages – over nine months on from the original launch. Google’s tardiness in servicing the ever growing community of Firefox users has opened them up to accusations of favouritism towards Explorer, and of marginalising those people who choose, for whatever reason, to avoid the Microsoft Browser.
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