Yahoo! Toolbar

8.5.3.16

Software information

License:

Freeware (Free)


Updated:

26 Apr 2013


Publisher:

Yahoo

Website:

http://www.yahoo.com

Software Screenshots

Size: 3.25 MB


Downloads: 95723


Platform: Windows (All Versions)

Review by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 01 Feb 2013

Available for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and for Mozilla Firefox browsers, Yahoo! Toolbar provides easy access to various Yahoo! services and to online services that are not Yahoo!’s, like YouTube and Facebook. The toolbar allows you to easily search the web, view emails, check out the weather, view your Facebook activity, and more – and all this functionality is offered for the great price of free.

Download a small executable (little over 3MB as a matter of fact), run it, and you will be presented with a setup wizard that will guide you through the installation process. Said wizard will ask you to set Yahoo! as your default home page and default search; it will also ask you to share browsing data with Yahoo! to help improve products and services.

Yahoo! Toolbar sits right where you would expect it to sit: at the top of the browser’s interface, underneath the URL bar. How the toolbar looks is entirely up to you. You can pick the apps that are displayed on the toolbar, you can arrange them in the order you want, and you can even pick a skin for the toolbar.

To help you along, Yahoo! Toolbar gets you started with a few apps you might enjoy: Yahoo Mail, Bookmarks, Yahoo! Weather, eBay, Facebook, and so on. As mentioned above, you can arrange these apps as you see fit on the toolbar and you can add more apps – there are many to choose from, all nicely sorted into categories. Thanks to these apps you have easy access to services offered by Yahoo! and by other developers.

You won’t have to part with any money to enjoy the functionality the Yahoo! Toolbar has to offer.

From IE or Firefox you have easy access to Yahoo! services and thanks to apps, you also have access to various non-Yahoo! services.

Pros

Yahoo! Toolbar is available for IE and Firefox. The toolbar can be customized; you can arrange the apps as you see fit and you can enable a skin. There are numerous apps to choose from. You have easy access to various Yahoo! services. Yahoo! Toolbar is free.

Cons

It is a toolbar – and there are many users out there who do not like toolbars.

Yahoo! Toolbar
8.5.3.16

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Yahoo! Toolbar Awards


Yahoo! Toolbar Editor’s Review Rating

Yahoo! Toolbar has been reviewed by George Norman on 01 Feb 2013. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Yahoo! Toolbar 3 out of 5 stars, naming it Very Good

3

out of 5