[ILUG] Bad day at google

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tue 26 Jul 2005 21:13, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:

> > I rashly accepted an offer to install "google toolbar" in firefox,
> > and now every time I start firefox I have to fill in an idiotic form
> > asking me to choose between two incomprehensible options.
> >
> > Has anyone else had the same experience?
>
> No. It works fine

Well, it works OK for me, except that it insists I answer this question
(about "page rank", whatever that is)
every time I start up firefox.

Also, when it was first installed
firefox turned German, with all the menu items, etc, in that language.
But firefox recovered from that when I re-booted.

I guess I ought to un-install the google toolbar (but how?)
and re-install it.

I read about the google toolbar on Linux Lockergnome,
<http://channels.lockergnome.com/linux/archives/20050725_toolbars_for_firefox_in_linux.phtml>
which also offered a Yahoo toolbar.
It wasn't clear if this was an alternative to the Google toolbar,
or if one could have both.
In any case, I declined to try it after my bad experience with google.


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