Google has released its official Google Toolbar for Firefox. The toolbar has been available for M$ Internet Explorer for some time, and if you just have to use IE I highly recommend it for its pop-up blocking capabilities alone; Firefox is good enough at pop-up blocking that this feature is not necessary.
Similar toolbars have been available as third-party extensions for Firefox, but this one seems to integrate more features, including: PageRank; buttons for Image, Froogle, Groups, News, and Site searches; Spell Check for forms; an automatic form filler; Autolink to create Google Maps from addresses; and a Blog This button. Some of these features are not enabled by default but can be easily added when selecting “options” from the drop-down menu beneath the main “Google” button.
By the way, after installing this toolbar, I used the “customize” option seen when right-clicking on the main toolbar area and was able to drag away the default Firefox search box in the upper right, as it was somewhat redundant once the Google Toolbar was installed. However, that search box allows for the use of multiple search sites, so I may yet add it back for its flexibility.
