Sure, I’d still end up going the extra mile and actually fix their real issues, but each removal of the omnipresent Google Toolbar felt almost like material change. ![]() It always seemed to work, too: removing not only Google Toolbar but also Yahoo! Toolbar, Ask Jeeves Toolbar, or any toolbar would give back so much screen real estate (we are talking about the 1024 x 768 screen resolution days of the 2000s) that there was at least the perception of a tune-up. If they ask me about tuning their computer or complained about websites loading slowly: I told them it’s the Google Toolbar, and I was happy to uninstall it for them. Google Toolbar existed to help me blame it for my family’s and friends’ computer problems. I have a confession: I was not a Google Toolbar user, but we had a relationship. Chrome is great ( fine?), but it isn’t what it used to be. ![]() It feels unreal for Google to silently forsake a tool that was, in 2008, responsible for 12 percent of all Google searches - and then convince a new internet generation that everyone should just download Chrome if they love Googling so much. How to “install” Google Toolbar - the result may surprise you.
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