toolbars

From the sound of its name, we expected this 2-in-1 toolbar to have more music-related links and gadgets, but that proved not to be the case.

Hottest Tracks Radio Toolbar looks and acts just like every other toolbar out there, with a customizable user interface, search field, e-mail notification, weather forecast, and pop-up blocker, and all of them worked without any problems. You can easily add your favorite applications and gadgets to the toolbar. In terms of extras, the toolbar throws in a media player gadget and a toolbar radio player, both of which played without interruption. In addition to … Read more

Not only does this free toolbar come jam-packed with all things blues-related, but it also manages to thrown in standard features to enhance your browsing experience.

Blues for Peace Toolbar adds a slim toolbar to your browser window. All the standards are there--e-mail notification, pop-up blocker, weather forecast--and they all worked very well. The toolbar can be customized to remove buttons and to include shortcuts to your favorite applications. While this is all pretty standard toolbar fare, the blues musician in you will appreciate the stellar radio feature. It comes loaded with blues stations that play without a hitch. There … Read more

This free toolbar comes jam-packed with helpful tools to enhance your browsing. Though we encountered a small glitch, it performed well for us overall.

DidDone Toolbar offers a fully customizable interface. The settings menu offers tabs for changing skins, adding and removing buttons, adding Web sites to your white list, and managing your RSS feeds. The toolbar also offers zoom and cleaning options. We found the cleaning options hit and miss. The clean cache and cookies features worked as promised, but the clean history feature failed to work. This was the only flaw in an otherwise useful toolbar. The log-in … Read more

Taking a page from StumbleUpon and the now-defunct MySpace News, Digg appears set to roll out a new feature in beta that will bring some of the Digg.com experience along once users leave the social news site to one of its outbound links.

A Flickr photo shows the new toolbar in action. From it you can see that clicked stories gets both a special Digg-flavored short permalink (like TinyURL provides) along with a new menu bar that appears on the top of the content.

This new bar serves double duty. First it lets you keep an eye on how … Read more

Correction:This post initially misstated where sponsored results show up. Sponsored results show up in toolbar searches and Google.com searches only.

Google on Tuesday released a new version if its software toolbar for Internet Explorer. Included is a feature carried over from the company's desktop search product--a search box that runs whether or not you have your browser open. This special box sits next to the Start button on your taskbar, and lets you search the Web, your browser bookmarks, and any files and applications you have on your PC.

In a blog post, the company said … Read more

This free toolbar gives users one-click access for downloading their favorite video files, but users will need to either download and install the free video player or use their own to actually play the files.

Video Download Toolbar fits snugly into your Internet Explorer Window. The toolbar itself isn't customizable, and doesn't offer users the more standard toolbar features, such as e-mail notification, and weather information. It does offer a wide array of shortcut buttons for searching, downloading, playing, and browsing for videos. The Settings menu let us select the location for the downloaded files, as well as … Read more

This handy Firefox add-on lets you quickly download your favorite FLV files as you browse the Web, but we would have liked some way to use this toolbar's wasted space.

Clipta Toolbar with Downloader introduces a slim toolbar to your Firefox browser that makes it easy to quickly browse and download videos at the same time, but there's still too much wasted space for our tastes. The toolbar houses a search field that uses Clipta's own search capabilities, a button that displays featured videos, and another button that shows the number of videos captured during a single … Read more

Simple and straightforward, this free Firefox add-on detects and highlights rapidshare files. Though we would have liked to have seen more customization options, it did its job well.

RS Tool introduces a toolbar to your Firefox browser. For what few buttons it brings to the table, it took up a lot of room, and it would have been nice to integrate it with another toolbar to save space. On the toolbar, you'll find a drop-down menu with links for help, to contact the publisher, and to upgrade. No other customization options are offered to make up for the dead … Read more

After testing this sleek, straightforward browser, we were ready to get rid of our current, more popular browser, and make The World Browser our default.

The user interface looks professionally designed, with self-explanatory command buttons at the top of the window. Below that are shortcuts to all of your bookmark categories. The interface can be customized to add or remove extra toolbars, but we liked the clean, uncluttered look of the default settings. Tiny navigational buttons make it easy to move through opened tabs. We especially liked the tab preview option for displaying all of your open tabs on one … Read more