DISQUS

F Ho · 3 years ago

Does anyone have any data on how pervasive is the use of toolbars? How many people or what percentage of people have one, two, three, or even more toolbars on their browser? The problem with toolbar is that it takes up area on the screen. So I wonder if this could make it harder for a newer toolbar to gain acceptance (so as not to diminish the window size within the browser), or that it could mean a user may switch from one toolbar to another (which takes more work).

RIC · 3 years ago

in reply to FHO:
you are right regarding the space, but there is a solution: Simply uncheck the unused toolbars and you get as space as you like ( i got 4 (!) toolbars). c'mon, don't be so [square] give your browser some treat, when the last time you feed it with some sweet RSS or brought him a good-looking toolbar?
look at the way the new IE/FF acts. they are pushing toolbrs and add-ons installations. switching from toolbars that takes expensive area can easily made by check/uncheck their names after right-clicking the top area of a browser. about the massive of toolbars usage, when the last time you visited addons.mozilla.org or www.ieaddons.com ? most of the add-ons there show true downloads counter. notice also the user comments and feel the buzzzz. hope that helped a little

ryan · 3 years ago

Just my 2 cents. Always include the button to hide/show your toolbar. I did not managed to do this with effectivebrand/conduit solution and switched to besttoolbars.net cause they have this as a standard feature under their toolbarstudio. Also my users enjoyed that my new toolbar is distributed from my own site and not from conduit cause I toolbarstudio created .exe and .cab to publish.

Peter · 2 years ago

IMHO, I do not like toolbar and I feel like it is some sort of Trojan .It gather many many user information to make money.

Hal Nordfish · 1 year ago

I think toolbars are great, but there are so many. I wish I could have a toolbar and just take what I like from other toolbars and have one with all the best options.

Or some kind of rotating toolbar that would be in one place, yet have all the ones I want...

Moviehouse · 1 year ago

I currently am using the Conduit toolbar designer for my site http://moviehouse.dcgamenetwork.com and think it is great. I'm able to keep my visitors informed on new movie and video releases as well as offer them and incentive for using it, I send messages through the toolbar for contests and special events I hold on my website from time to time, and the response I've gotten is tremendous.

Some toolbars yes can be intrusive but this one is right on the money and helps keep my users informed and up to date on what ever I have going on. And more importantly keeps them coming back which for any webmaster or site admin is key to a successful website.