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> Wish things have changed in 10 years... apparently it didn't. We no longer have browser toolbars. I remember a time when I had customers come in with 4, 5, o
by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Wish things have changed in 10 years... apparently it didn't.
We no longer have browser toolbars. I remember a time when I had customers come in with 4, 5, or even 6 different browser toolbars. The Google toolbar, the Yahoo toolbar, the McAfee toolbar, the Because-We-Fucking-Can toolbar, etc. Most laptops came with at least one toolbar pre-installed.
- can16358p 4y agoOh. Totally forgot those IE-era toolbars. Nice improvement to get rid of those.
- Thlom 4y agoHaha! I was working IT support for the local municipality back then. One time I had to go into the office of the local orchestra to fix their computer which was "slow". When I turned it on there was a cat or a dog walking around on the screen, IE had at least 5 toolbars, including two porn tool bars and the bookmark menu was full of porn links. A hot mess to say the least. Cleaned it up and removed all junk, malware, spyware, toolbars and "fun" applets. Pretty sure it was back to the same mess a couple of weeks later ...
- slaymaker1907 4y agoToolbars we're a big mistake, but I understand why people thought they might be a good idea. Explorer context menu hooks (i.e. open in VS Code) are really useful, and without the benefit of hindsight those seem similar to toolbars.