New Google Toolbar Released

• Posted by B Jones on January 30th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »

Google has released a new Google Toolbar Beta. The new toolbar is fully customizable via XML. There is a lot of documentation about how to make your own custom toolbar buttons.

The toolbar creates a “Custom Button XML File” that will hold customized XML data. Here’s an example for a custom Wikipedia search button:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<custombuttons xmlns=”http://toolbar.google.com/custombuttons/”>

<button>
<site>http://www.wikipedia.org</site>

</custombuttons>

I have the current Google Toolbar installed on IE, but I don’t use it because I like Firefox so much. Firefox has so many extensions, I couldn’t imagine the Google Toolbar doing anything that Firefox extensions can’t do. I suppose I will get around to installing the new Beta toolbar in IE eventually. If anyone else gets around to it, post some comments to let us know how it is.

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