Comments on: Forget browser wars, prepare for toolbar wars

Potential deal between Google, Dell highlights turf battle over choices PC users have when first booting up.

[Dead Soulman]

Do we need them?

I can't seem to understand why people use browsers with, or decide to install, toolbars. I can't stand them. They take space on your screen. They can take as much as an inch of screen. Why do you want to do that.
I use Firefox and that search window to my right works wonders for me. That's all I need. I have my favorites/or most visited likns with icons on my screen, and whatever else I need I just click on my "Bookmarks" button, and there are the rest.

Why people use these space hoags is beyond me. I guess is the same reason why people are still using AOL. Might as well go back to writing with crayons.

[BMR777]

Google Toolbar better than Dell MyWay Toolbar

Remember the Dell/MyWay partnership? Dell would install the MyWay toolbar on their PC's Browsers and then have a Dell MyWay portal. Probably the same with Google now, only less troubling for PC users. At least Google isn't evil (yet).

[Dead Soulman]

Google Not Evi Yet???

Are you kidding? Google not evil yet? They're doing the same crap that MS and any other monolopy-like company does. Read the news a bit more and you'd realise what they've been doing for the sake of the mighty green dollar.

[klo_2k]

What's the point

I really don't get the whole point of what toolbar gets installed into which system by default - it's irrelevant to me since I always do a clean install of a retail version of Windows whenever I get a new system.

I'd rather they give me a clean installation of Windows than to bundle it with all those crap.
(Did I hear someone say Norton AV?)

DELL Preloads SPYWARE for you

I ordered a DELL Precision. I noticed the Google Desktop search and Google Toolbar and Homepage. I thought I had purchased a USED machine. They don't give you a choice when you turn on the machine to refuse the install. My advice to anyone buying a machine, REINSTALL the OS before you use the machine. I had a full 8 GIGS of disk usage before I installed one app. After I reformatted the drive less than a gig was used. Doesn't DELL know that Google spys on it's users? The Desktop search stores all kinds of info on you, beware corporate users!

[didntfindaname]

I agree toolbars are quite useless

Especially if one uses a browser like firefox which has a google search in the top right anyways, whats the point of an extra toolbar taking lots of space and personally making my browser look cluttered for no real purpose

[bobby_brady]

Who cares about toolbars!

Honestly, I used the Google toolbar for like a month, took it off as Microsofts popup stopper was all I needed.

Anyways, everytime I get a new computer, I always unload all the crap that is preinstalled.

[baswwe]

illegal MS software user bob bob

you need to buy a new license of windows

[OneWithTech]

This is funny considering.....

....the article I just wrote on www.TechViewsToday.US about
Yahoo's blatant use of known web code to see that I was using a
Safari web browser. Then Yahoo displayed a rather poignant
banner ad asking me to change the default search provider at
top right corner of my Safari Browser.

You see, Google adheres this space by default. Read the whole
story at www.TechViewsToday.US

~Justin

[baswwe]

can we say illegal copies of MS software

illegal usage of ms software = jailtime