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April 05, 2005

No Platform Left Behind...

In February, we released Yahoo! Toolbar Beta for Firefox on Windows. At that time, some folks were able to use it on other platforms, but now I'm proud to announce that Yahoo! Toolbar officially supports Firefox for Mac and Linux too! Not only that, but it's available for the UK and Hong Kong.

Try it at:

US: toolbar.yahoo.com
UK: uk.toolbar.yahoo.com
Hong Kong: hk.toolbar.yahoo.com

We've made some improvements to the Windows version too, and it now works with Anti-Spy just like Yahoo! Toolbar for IE.

So please give the latest Beta version a try and let us know what you think. And to all of you who have sent us feedback, thank you for your help and support!

Viraj Chavan
Yahoo! Toolbar Engineer

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Comments

Thanks for the Mac version.

Now all we need is support for Rich Text Mail in Firefox and I will be one happy camper!

(P.S. I don't see what the hold up in this is since you support rich text editing in Firefox on the Yahoo! 360 blog beta.)

Posted by: Scott Kaiser | April 5, 2005 08:12 PM

Oh yeah... a new version of Yahoo! Messenger for the Mac would be nice too. The current version is severly outdated.

Posted by: Scott Kaiser | April 5, 2005 08:14 PM

No platform left behind? so what are you building for Internet Explorer 'cuz that browser is a little old.

Nice to see this happening!!!

Posted by: rebron | April 5, 2005 09:09 PM

Thanks, I'm really looking forward to see Yahoo! Launch working under Firefox and a new version of Yahoo Messenger under Linux.

Posted by: Pooya Karimian | April 5, 2005 09:16 PM

what about Opera? you simply ignore or refuse to work with it. Come on guys ... don't alienate your fans.

Posted by: Dissapointed | April 6, 2005 12:37 AM

really good, would it be asking too much to be able to remove the antispy button? I don't use this tool...
Looking forward to see a 306° button :)

Posted by: Guillaume | April 6, 2005 01:07 AM

do yahoo have fans? ahh. comeon. Ya'll trapped into death bed and flagged to like yahoo.. dontcha? ;)

Posted by: Arrgh | April 6, 2005 07:39 AM

It'll really be nice to finally see this working... under *nix & mac. ;-)

Posted by: -PD | April 6, 2005 08:58 AM

Thank you for supporting Linux and Firefox.

Posted by: Jure Repinc | April 6, 2005 12:53 PM

Yes, works nice. I'll echo the plea for Launchcast for (64-bit) Mozilla, Linux and Opera. And could you strong-arm Macromedia for a 64-bit Flash?? Yeah, I'm greedy.

Posted by: MikeMc | April 6, 2005 01:05 PM

What about a toolbar for Mozilla? Since Mozilla and Firefox are both based on the same core, it should be fairly easy to port this to Mozilla.

Posted by: Ed | April 6, 2005 01:08 PM

Excuse me, but I dont see the utility of using "Yahoo! toolbar" (tm) and I am not saying this with bad intentions. I've been a linux user for the last year and felt no need for it. Could anyone enlighten me?
One really usefull thing that linux users would love is a remake of the "messenger" (Respects to the Gaim crew).

Posted by: Lucian | April 6, 2005 02:17 PM

Well Lucian, it's more of a novelty issue. I use it because it tells me whenever an email's been recieved, or reading my bookmars and RSS feeds from a computer which isn't mine, as well as easy links to Yahoo! properties. There's other uses for it besides the search box (which I use the least, because I have a search box within Firefox which can choose between searches which aren't even search engine sites).

Nice to see the expansion on the Yahoo! Toolbar fro Fx. I hope that the latest bugfixes will be availible soon, such as the customize toolbar bug.

I don't know if Opera can be customised in such a way.

Posted by: Leon | April 6, 2005 04:44 PM

Getting Yahoo! Launch is hopefully next up for working with Firefox. I love launch but I hate having to open IE in order to use it...

Posted by: Gary | April 7, 2005 07:08 PM

I just started using mozilla browser, and I cant seem to get the yahoo toolbar. can anyone help?

Posted by: gary | April 10, 2005 07:13 AM