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New Features in Google Toolbar 6
February 26, 2009, 5:29 PM by ROB
Posted in REVIEWS, SOFTWARE | 624 views
If you're stuck in the stone age and still haven't evolved from Internet Explorer (which cnet.co.uk has benchmarked as being the slowest modern browser to date), I'm happy to report that you can finally enjoy Google Chrome's dashboard-esque new tab page with Google Toolbar 6 Beta.
Google's new tab page (delivered unto Firefox users a few weeks back) gives users quick access to their most visited web pages, bookmarks, and recently closed tabs and windows.
The toolbar also brings Quick Search Box (QSB) functionality to users without Google Desktop Search and to users who, like myself, use 64-bit Windows Vista. What I'm quickly falling in love with about the new QSB, though, is its application launcher. Using the CTRL+Space keyboard shortcut brings up the QSB and just typing a query (such as "notepad") gives you a host of options.
What's more, the QSB adapts to how you use it most. If you usually use it for search queries, the software will put search suggestions higher on the list. On the other hand, if you're like me and love to have your applications and programs just a quick tap on the keyboard away (rather than having to navigate through menus and such), QSB will learn that you do so and start displaying program suggestions higher on the list. The first time I used the feature, the Notepad application appeared toward the bottom of the list above. After just one use, however, it was moved to the top.
Freaky, no?
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