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browsers. Yahoo! Toolbar has been around for more than 10 years and has evolved since its inception. Originally aimed at being a bookmark and pop-up blocker, it evolved to provide an app-like experience within the Toolbar. It has apps for leading sites like

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, Yahoo! Mail,

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. It also allows users to bookmark sites and manage them. It continues to support features like button shortcuts to top internet sites like

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, etc. It also allows access to several functions, including

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Yahoo! Chrome Toolbar is the most recent addition to the Yahoo! Toolbar family.

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s to prevent pop-ups and

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. Several additional features are available on the Internet Explorer version, as well as incorporating Firefox-style

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to IE version 6.0 (versions 7.0 and later allow tabbed browsing). The Yahoo! Toolbar has a well-known and dark history of being bundled with other software. The toolbar often installs itself without the user's knowledge or consent. Yahoo! is known for paying developers to place the toolbar into programs in such a way that inexperienced users may unwillingly install it. Installation of the toolbar can result in changes to the browser homepage, default search engine, and web-tracking preferences.

System requirements

To install, computers must meet the following requirements:

Windows

* Windows 98 or higher * Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher * Firefox 1.5 or higher

Mac and Linux

*Firefox 1.5 or higher

Similar toolbars

* Alexa Toolbar * AOL Toolbar * Bing Bar * Google Toolbar

References

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