Published in Search Engines on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
In keeping with the Google theme, this news spotted over at Zdnet Australia: Google is poised to release a version of its toolbar for the Firefox browser, according to information sent to developers of an open source toolbar alternative.
This looks to be an interesting development, and perhaps supports the idea that Google does "get it", as the article also mentions that the e-mail claiming the software will work on Microsoft's Windows 2000 and XP platforms, Mac OS X 10.2, and "Linux 8.0+"
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It's nice to see them supporting these other systems - after they acknowledged that the rest of the world exists not too long ago ;-)
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Comments and Feedback
There's already an a9.com toolbar for firefox. This tool is probably very similar to what Google will release. I'm just surprised that they have not done this sooner.
What the heck is "Linux 8.0+" ??
Is it Firefox 0.8 ??
I am a linux user, there's no Linux 8.0+ as far i know.
Linux version based on it's Kernel.