Yes! Finally, Google Toolbar has been discontinued by Google! Google Toolbar had been long dead for several years and it needed to be killed off for some time. Very surprising how this Google product lasted for over 21 YEARS!
I remember times when toolbars were in 90% of free software installers, but some people didn't know about option to uncheck the toolbar instalation offer and i remember when my uncle gave me his own laptop to clean browser and it has 10 toolbars + adware plugin.
I remember a friend calling me over because his browser was so slow. When I opened the browser, half of the page estate had been taken over by toolbars!!
That was the scene till a few years ago, and even "Driver Installers" in CDs came with those. HP installed Bing toolbar (I can still provide you the setup), some crappy USB Modem came with Google Toolbar, among others. Remember Coupon Printer, Cyberlink PowerDVD and other shits that used to come in the CDs?
Still can't forgive Google for killing Play Music, YT Music needs to check you're online everytime while Play Music just straight up plays your songs Edit: guys, YT Vanced is the OG
@@busterbunny005 When my phone is offline, there's always a delay in YT music before it plays (or repeats) the next song. It doesn't happen when it's online
@@CEO100able to be fair it was one that I made up (although I wouldn't be surprised if it has been used before) but it still kinda stands. It's been discontinued without being officially discontinued
Here's the funny thing. Back in the day, back when this still worked properly, back in the Windows XP days, I was a heavy user of the Google toolbar, even installed some custom buttons, and those custom buttons are still added to the toolbar when I login with my Google account. Also, for some reason Orkut was a big thing in Brazil. Even after the service was shut down it was kept up in Brazil for a few more years. Must be why it was still available in the toolbar even in 2015. (By the way, remember that one episode of Gumball where the Wattersons had no internet because the browser on Mr. Robinson's was full of toolbars? That joke was dated even when the episode came out.)
That error code you were getting on XP, 0x800700BF, is ERROR_INVALID_EXE_SIGNATURE, which usually means you're trying to run 64-bit software on a 32-bit OS.
Judging from the Google logo used on that webpage's image at 2:50 the site was probably last updated sometime between 2010 and 2013. It however mentioned Google+ multiple times so that lowers the range to 2011-2013.
...wait, really? Google, the company that kills off products more often than most people change their clothes, still have a toolbar alive despite nobody using toolbars anymore?
I remember when i was like 7 or 8 years old, i used to install WAY too much toolbars that i didn't know how to get rid of. I thought i had a virus! Ah, good old 2012...
The reason it likely has an update is because software is often set up with automatic update/deployment systems. Some time in 2018, someone either ran all the update systems at once, or an update triggered updates of all the things that required it, including the toolbar.
I remember having a Hotmail or MSN toolbar way back in the mid 2000s. Seemingly every program you tried to install back then offered a browser toolbar of some sort.
One of the things Google was offering that I miss is Picasa. It's not too good for today's standards but it was a great picture viewer back in the day, I remember editing pictures with it to have "Polaroid" frame and use them for character bios on my stories or make custom wallpapers.
As one of the three last users of Google+ I thought it was pretty nice. No listicles, no annoying relatives, my feed was mostly pretty photos and programming jokes.
It had a very small but dedicated user base, there were some online petitions to keep it going once they announced the shutdown. It's still kind of available if you have a Google Workspace controlled account.
Makes me think back of a something that happen when i was in tech support, a collegue send me a screenshot. A client complained they couldnt use the internet anymore as the window was too small. She had like 20+ toolbars installed. May be an interesting video too, see how many toolbars still work
Google Inc. became Google LLC in 2017, likely why the copyright was dated 2018 - to change it to Google LLC (the correct company name). The signature is almost certainly just an auto-updater. Edit: The new Google logo came most likely from a URL.
I used to use Google Toolbar with IE6 back in the day until around 2007 I switched to Firefox and combined it with the Google toolbar again. Was a great combo!
when internet explorer forces you to open edge, that's actually an extension within ie stored in the edge program, you can't disable it but if you delete the folder it removes the restriction
I hated those things with a passion. Everytime someone would call me and ask me to fix their slow browsing experience i would always find like 5 or more toolbars installed and when i got rid of them along with resetting the browser settings they were good to go again (most of the time)
You can see an old logo Google used until 2015 on the screenshot on toolbar page, so my guess is that it was abandoned in 2013/14-ish, since they list win 7+
(17:01) "But we've got the Canadian government website opened up here and I've got it set to French." That's a sentence I never thought I'd hear Micheal say... 😮
The download page would have worked in a newer version of IE. I believe it's because IE 6 supports HTTPS, but the security version (TLS/SSL?) is one that is no longer widely supported. Also the download button would work in Chrome or Firefox if you change your useragent ;)
It looks like a lot of features, like the autofill got brought into Chrome after they started working on that instead of the toolbar. i'm guessing the team behind the toolbar got moved to working on the chrome browser too.
Hi Michael! I have a question: how did you manage that VMware runs so smoothly? (I mean when you move the windows in Windows VMs) because I have the problem that VMware lagged very heavily when I move windows in my Windows VMs (especially with Windows Vista, 7, XP and 8). is there a patch or other solution for this?
Edge now has its own extension store. Also, you couldn't access the download page because IE tries to connect using SSL 2.0 which doesn't work anymore. You can also turn off redirection of webpages to edge.
Usually with auto-fill, you have to actually click submit or “enter” and the it will ask you if you want it to save your information. I might have missed it if you tried to actually hit submit for it to work but idk, was just thinking that could have been why. Awesome video, always great content! You have became one of my favorites!
I just installed it on my Windows 10 machine and it works! And yes it does in fact close all your browsers! As it closed Chrome on which I was watching your video.
I work for an engineering firm and we still have to use Internet Explorer for government sites that we access. I also work in IT and have to use Internet Explorer to access, say, an older IP Camera (3-4 years old) due to the firmware not being updated by the company to support newer browsers. In the world of IT and Government, you'd be surprised at how many of us are forced to still use IE, sometimes on a daily basis.
Google: We should remove Google Instant because it doesn't work on phones. Also Google: **Doesn't remove a toolbar exclusive for a browser that Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge its existence**
I always hated those because they would hijack your browser and run ads and popups, change your homepage, and literally kill any good browsing experience you had going. it was worse than a toxic girlfriend.
Man I wish I had found your channel about 2 months ago. I recently purchased an old HP desktop computer that had Windows XP installed on it. I tried everything in the world to access the internet on it but because the old web browsers would not support sse2 instruction set I was at a standstill. I was literally using a thumb drive to download installation packages on another computer and then copying them to this computer to try to get it working. I tried some other suggestions for browsers that would work with XP such as pale Moon and others but I always ran into the same problem: either Microsoft or my ISP or the internet itself knew that those browsers were outdated and severely limited and they just either would not process the instructions at all or they would tell me that I needed to update to a newer browser. Of course when I tried to actually go and download the new version of Microsoft edge or Google Chrome every installation failed due to the hardware restrictions on this machine. I decided that I would just go ahead and order a new motherboard and CPU combo that would allow me to install newer programs... And I did manage to create a Windows 7 installation disc and I was able to use and install Windows 7 on the machine but I still run into the same problems with the hardware being sold that it doesn't support executables in the new code and instruction sets that they have. But now that you've mentioned the browser called My pal I'm going to have to look into that. As far as I'm concerned Windows XP was the Pinnacle of all operating systems that Microsoft ever put out. I went into mourning the day that they discontinued support for it. It's a shame. I think that they should basically just take whatever their next OS is going to be and call it Windows XP 21 or something like that just so that we can go back to the XP themes the XP feel and bring back some nostalgia for old guys like us. LOL
I probably use IE for around 30% of my web browsing. The reason for that is my job. Lots of our in house websites won't load using other web-browsers. SO I'd hope that the rest of the .75% of IE users are like me. Also my occasional retro computer web-search.
Our family PC used to have this, I remembered from the icon. But we weren't even using explorer, we were using firefox. I don't know why it was installed.
"You're using Chrome, that's great. All of the features of Google Toolbar are already built into your browser." That's an outright lie (to say nothing of the comma splice). I _still_ miss the ability to enclose multiple terms in quotation marks and use the automatically created buttons to scroll through (or highlight) every instance on a webpage, including one from the search results. Ctrl+F pales in comparison. When the Firefox extension was discontinued, I manually edited the compatible version numbers to force its installation until it literally stopped working. Then I downgraded to the previous version of Firefox and refused to upgrade until _that_ began to break with age. Why Google didn't actually include "all of the features of Google Toolbar" in Chrome is beyond me.
Whole Ingress community was using Google+. Did you even try it? Its a shame that they killed such a good platform, even if so few people were using it. P.S: searching Yahoo in Google Toolbar, man you nailed it. Your videos are full of nostalgic, keep doing them :)
Google Toolbar was also distributed as a Mozilla plug-in for Firefox from September 2005 to June 2011. On December 12, 2021, the software was no longer available for download, and the website now redirects to a support page.
man i remember using this thing back when i was still using ie in 2004 or something. only reason for that was the popup blocker, because back then basically every webpage had huge amount of popups. and they were also so full of ads, that my poor old amd duron 1,2ghz pc with 512mb ram on windows xp barely could keep up. then i moved to use opera for few years and around the same time as Mozilla changed Firebird to Firefox, i started to use it as my main browser and got used to web with adblockers.
Looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on this. I wonder if this video had anything to do with it 😂
Wow!
I was literally just on the website wondering whether you brought awareness to google or not 😂
You did your job, Google Toolbar. Now, rest in peace.
I guess after they saw this video, they remembered they had this and pulled the plug 😂
Yes! Finally, Google Toolbar has been discontinued by Google!
Google Toolbar had been long dead for several years and it needed to be killed off for some time.
Very surprising how this Google product lasted for over 21 YEARS!
Google’s gonna see this and just say “Oh, thanks for the reminder” and obliterate the whole thing like it never existed
lol
No, this probably still exists for backwards compatibility reasons
@@BlackBearFTW_ yeah true
This still exists because there’s some Milton at Google who all the execs forgot about who’s probably gonna burn the building down now.
Also, the Wikipedia page changed in the video. Look at the version in the current Wikipedia and this video's Wikipedia version.
I remember times when toolbars were in 90% of free software installers, but some people didn't know about option to uncheck the toolbar instalation offer and i remember when my uncle gave me his own laptop to clean browser and it has 10 toolbars + adware plugin.
ASK jeeves toolbar was the real deal back then, I've seen more PC with that thing installed than without
Reminds me of a scene from IT Crowd.
I remember a friend calling me over because his browser was so slow. When I opened the browser, half of the page estate had been taken over by toolbars!!
Yep, what I called "toolbar burgers", when there are too many toolbars in Internet Explorer or Firefox
That was the scene till a few years ago, and even "Driver Installers" in CDs came with those.
HP installed Bing toolbar (I can still provide you the setup), some crappy USB Modem came with Google Toolbar, among others. Remember Coupon Printer, Cyberlink PowerDVD and other shits that used to come in the CDs?
The background music is the same music as the test sample that DankPods uses, nice
I heard it and I was instantly like alright mate break out the hur dur six hungos
Yeah
Da dadadada dada *song*
Nice
i noticed too
Still can't forgive Google for killing Play Music, YT Music needs to check you're online everytime while Play Music just straight up plays your songs
Edit: guys, YT Vanced is the OG
Google Music was awesome because you could download your library too.
Also Talk is better than any of its successors.
YT Music plays saved songs offline just fine though
@@busterbunny005 When my phone is offline, there's always a delay in YT music before it plays (or repeats) the next song. It doesn't happen when it's online
It's still usable as a music player for me. You can't use the old app at all or only for your bought music?
@@SilentProti i dont buy any music, I use my previous library from play music
I remember using the Google Toolbar during the final Internet Explorer 6 days. I always thought it was discontinued until now. Excellent video of it!
Michael's videos are always very detailed.
@@MrFreddy123 Yep, that's what I enjoy about them. All computer users should watch them!
It probably is soft discontinued and google never officially announced it.
@@adwaitagnome I never knew that term existed, although it's still very interesting to see a classic web browser add-on available in the early 2020s.
@@CEO100able to be fair it was one that I made up (although I wouldn't be surprised if it has been used before) but it still kinda stands. It's been discontinued without being officially discontinued
why do i love these reviews of old shit that there is a zero percent chance of me ever even coming in contact with
because yes
H
Because nostalgia and edumacation.
didn’t know ganer got verified lol
@@nezzled same
Here's the funny thing. Back in the day, back when this still worked properly, back in the Windows XP days, I was a heavy user of the Google toolbar, even installed some custom buttons, and those custom buttons are still added to the toolbar when I login with my Google account.
Also, for some reason Orkut was a big thing in Brazil. Even after the service was shut down it was kept up in Brazil for a few more years. Must be why it was still available in the toolbar even in 2015.
(By the way, remember that one episode of Gumball where the Wattersons had no internet because the browser on Mr. Robinson's was full of toolbars? That joke was dated even when the episode came out.)
brony in 2021?? ewwww
@@ps5hasnogames55 Seriously? We're still doing this in 2021? I thought we were past this.
didn't know that it was kept up in Brazil, interesting.
As far as I know, Orkut was also popular in India.
@@kbhasi Yeah, I think you're right. I think Orkut was still kept up there too after it was shut down.
It’s me Trent Dalton. I guess my video suggestion did actually end up becoming a reality after all. Awesome! 😀❤️
Bro that’s pretty cool:)
Nice😁
Yeah, i once saw a co9mputer having so many toolbars it could only display 1 line of a webpage.
That error code you were getting on XP, 0x800700BF, is ERROR_INVALID_EXE_SIGNATURE, which usually means you're trying to run 64-bit software on a 32-bit OS.
It's amazing, that Stadia got sort of killed in about a year, but Toolbar still exists. For like 10 years it still eats server space, if it is tiny.
Judging from the Google logo used on that webpage's image at 2:50 the site was probably last updated sometime between 2010 and 2013. It however mentioned Google+ multiple times so that lowers the range to 2011-2013.
Probably late 2011, since it's got the Windows 7 windows.
It said last updated 2012
...wait, really? Google, the company that kills off products more often than most people change their clothes, still have a toolbar alive despite nobody using toolbars anymore?
old people probably still do
Wtf is your profile picture?
@@user-qh8vm1me5w wtf is ur name
@@Ketten Wtf is my life
Imagine not being straight smh
I remember when i was like 7 or 8 years old, i used to install WAY too much toolbars that i didn't know how to get rid of. I thought i had a virus!
Ah, good old 2012...
And I imagine those toolbars cluttered up the screen so much that you couldn't even see the webpages.
Oh my... that’s why my mom used the toolbar since it was easy to find along with other shortcuts.
11:37
"michael mjd face"
"michael mjd face reveal"
"michael mjd age"
😂😂😂
Wait, people actually search that?
I want to see how he looks like
@@moelester7527 he does
I think the Google Toolbar needs two sidekicks, The Bing and The Yahoo Toolbars! i hope you do both of them
Wasn’t there a whole fiasco regarding the Bing toolbar? There’s also the Yahoo toolbar, but no DuckDuckGo toolbar.
i had the old bing toolbar but i lost my computer that had it
And also the Ask toolbar. Even though it's just a virus.
Did you mean Yhaoo toolbar?
@@TeionM83 don't mention that piece of digital junk. I remember it was a pain in the ass to get rid of
The reason it likely has an update is because software is often set up with automatic update/deployment systems. Some time in 2018, someone either ran all the update systems at once, or an update triggered updates of all the things that required it, including the toolbar.
Probably recompiling with spectre/meltdown mitigations, they were 2018.
11:50 you can actually disable that, it's in the Edge settings, I forgot what category but it took me a little digging to find.
It's in the Default Browser section, under Internet Explorer Compatibility.
"Orkut, anyone remembers Orkut?"
Me as a brazilian:
Oh shit, the memories
Not an Orkut user (not old enough) but a Brazilian too :)
Aw mam I still remember Orkut.
Of course yes, I remember even BBS days!
That was before Google+ right?
@Jão the fox English please.
I remember having a Hotmail or MSN toolbar way back in the mid 2000s. Seemingly every program you tried to install back then offered a browser toolbar of some sort.
yup... I used Yahoo Toolbar many years before switched to google toolbar lol
One of the things Google was offering that I miss is Picasa. It's not too good for today's standards but it was a great picture viewer back in the day, I remember editing pictures with it to have "Polaroid" frame and use them for character bios on my stories or make custom wallpapers.
Right? I was surprised when it was stopped, like it was quite good. Imagine where it could be if Google kept with it.
As one of the three last users of Google+ I thought it was pretty nice. No listicles, no annoying relatives, my feed was mostly pretty photos and programming jokes.
@@lol-ih1tl Google+ and Digg aren't the same thing......
It had a very small but dedicated user base, there were some online petitions to keep it going once they announced the shutdown. It's still kind of available if you have a Google Workspace controlled account.
Makes me think back of a something that happen when i was in tech support, a collegue send me a screenshot. A client complained they couldnt use the internet anymore as the window was too small. She had like 20+ toolbars installed. May be an interesting video too, see how many toolbars still work
I love Yhaoo. They're my favorite... whatever they do
I'm amazed that "someone" at google actually made a new icon (in the 2015 design style)
There is one guy in a small office in the basement that works on products like these lol.
@@matttysonx but why didn't he add the new logo to the translator feature of the toolbar?
Google Inc. became Google LLC in 2017, likely why the copyright was dated 2018 - to change it to Google LLC (the correct company name). The signature is almost certainly just an auto-updater. Edit: The new Google logo came most likely from a URL.
Google killed reader, yet this still exists.
WHY?!
Also, I used and liked google+ starting with the closed beta up til the day it closed.
I miss G+ :(
@@maxstirnersego me too mate
I remember seeing NFSW on Google plus when I was younger.
Google+ gang where you at??
@@fenn_fren right here matey
I think they just have this still running with an auto-sign job in their CI tool.
Most likely.
you and jim browning uploaded today. my fav tech youtubers
I'm gonna have to check out Jim's video now!
ikr
@@MichaelMJD wow
@@MichaelMJD lol I saw ur reply there:)
Wait, Jim Browning?! The number one scam-fighting youtuber!?!? I watched him sometimes!!!!
Micheal MJD: Google Toolbar copyrights.
Me: And they say Windows 10 is bad with its constituencies.
I used to use Google Toolbar with IE6 back in the day until around 2007 I switched to Firefox and combined it with the Google toolbar again. Was a great combo!
Wow, that's a blast from the past.
It’s cool that Google still hosts their own toolbar for download
But it's uncool that some of the features it has don't work anymore.
Not anymore
I’d like to see a bit of a retrospective on the bing bar. I wonder how many people used it
I wonder if the installer is autoupdated in all there software since the more reacent signititure/copyright.
I was hoping you'd make a video about this, truly an anomaly.
🙄
@@mohamedmimonasbai8563 ???
🙄mjaydxp
when internet explorer forces you to open edge, that's actually an extension within ie stored in the edge program, you can't disable it but if you delete the folder it removes the restriction
the Google suggestion of “michael mjd face reveal” 😂 the people are desperate
I hated those things with a passion. Everytime someone would call me and ask me to fix their slow browsing experience i would always find like 5 or more toolbars installed and when i got rid of them along with resetting the browser settings they were good to go again (most of the time)
You can see an old logo Google used until 2015 on the screenshot on toolbar page, so my guess is that it was abandoned in 2013/14-ish, since they list win 7+
I remember another one everyone had was the Ask Toolbar. You couldn't escape these
I used to use ask back when I was like 5.
(17:01) "But we've got the Canadian government website opened up here and I've got it set to French."
That's a sentence I never thought I'd hear Micheal say... 😮
Me neither
The download page would have worked in a newer version of IE. I believe it's because IE 6 supports HTTPS, but the security version (TLS/SSL?) is one that is no longer widely supported.
Also the download button would work in Chrome or Firefox if you change your useragent ;)
I like it when things are forgotten and left up. Kind of like a time capsule
There is a universal bar called "webdiscover bar", you might want to try it, it's pretty close to the old Google toolbar
11:36 lmao Michael MJD face reveal
Funny how difficult it is to make the Toolbar work today, when I remember how much time we spent to remove these things back in the days.
The digital signature might just be updated automatically without any employees working on it
This reminds me of some websites that help you build a custom toolbar with your own logo and features.
The Google Toolbar
Ah, the nostalgia of those times.
Heavens Gate Cult was around.
Tools. Tools. Tools everywhere.
Wait, new logo is from 2015? Damn that's insane how time flies
It looks like a lot of features, like the autofill got brought into Chrome after they started working on that instead of the toolbar.
i'm guessing the team behind the toolbar got moved to working on the chrome browser too.
Some people still use internet explorer to load older web pages that modern browsers don't load properly.
Google toolbar, that takes me back lol
i have very fond memories of installing as many toolbar features onto my $50 1gb chromebook. that’s probably what killed it
Hi Michael! I have a question: how did you manage that VMware runs so smoothly? (I mean when you move the windows in Windows VMs) because I have the problem that VMware lagged very heavily when I move windows in my Windows VMs (especially with Windows Vista, 7, XP and 8). is there a patch or other solution for this?
Upgrade your computer ok?
Increase the vram in VMware
I was going through an old computer yesterday and found this installed, i don"t know why, but it made me really nostalgic.
That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.
Edge now has its own extension store.
Also, you couldn't access the download page because IE tries to connect using SSL 2.0 which doesn't work anymore.
You can also turn off redirection of webpages to edge.
Usually with auto-fill, you have to actually click submit or “enter” and the it will ask you if you want it to save your information. I might have missed it if you tried to actually hit submit for it to work but idk, was just thinking that could have been why. Awesome video, always great content! You have became one of my favorites!
I just installed it on my Windows 10 machine and it works! And yes it does in fact close all your browsers! As it closed Chrome on which I was watching your video.
Next video: Installing tonnes of toolbars in IE.
I work for an engineering firm and we still have to use Internet Explorer for government sites that we access. I also work in IT and have to use Internet Explorer to access, say, an older IP Camera (3-4 years old) due to the firmware not being updated by the company to support newer browsers. In the world of IT and Government, you'd be surprised at how many of us are forced to still use IE, sometimes on a daily basis.
What does engineering have got to do with government websites?
@@bigblackbadger1 We have government clients that we do engineering work for that we have to submit work through on their sites.
Google: We should remove Google Instant because it doesn't work on phones.
Also Google: **Doesn't remove a toolbar exclusive for a browser that Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge its existence**
I always hated those because they would hijack your browser and run ads and popups, change your homepage, and literally kill any good browsing experience you had going. it was worse than a toxic girlfriend.
Dude, you just outed some dude’s scheme that he’s been riding since 2014. That guy has to find a new team and actually start doing work now.
Really strange page. The "Google Toolbar" on the top left corner is using modern google logo and "Toolbar" is written with new Google font from 2018.
Hey Michael, you next vid should be on myspace in 2021
is there still a way to get an msn suffix mail in 2022 ? or servers are down ?
Man I wish I had found your channel about 2 months ago. I recently purchased an old HP desktop computer that had Windows XP installed on it. I tried everything in the world to access the internet on it but because the old web browsers would not support sse2 instruction set I was at a standstill. I was literally using a thumb drive to download installation packages on another computer and then copying them to this computer to try to get it working. I tried some other suggestions for browsers that would work with XP such as pale Moon and others but I always ran into the same problem: either Microsoft or my ISP or the internet itself knew that those browsers were outdated and severely limited and they just either would not process the instructions at all or they would tell me that I needed to update to a newer browser. Of course when I tried to actually go and download the new version of Microsoft edge or Google Chrome every installation failed due to the hardware restrictions on this machine. I decided that I would just go ahead and order a new motherboard and CPU combo that would allow me to install newer programs... And I did manage to create a Windows 7 installation disc and I was able to use and install Windows 7 on the machine but I still run into the same problems with the hardware being sold that it doesn't support executables in the new code and instruction sets that they have. But now that you've mentioned the browser called My pal I'm going to have to look into that. As far as I'm concerned Windows XP was the Pinnacle of all operating systems that Microsoft ever put out. I went into mourning the day that they discontinued support for it. It's a shame. I think that they should basically just take whatever their next OS is going to be and call it Windows XP 21 or something like that just so that we can go back to the XP themes the XP feel and bring back some nostalgia for old guys like us. LOL
How is it not working even with a new motherboard?
I remember when I was like 6 years old and could barely see a webpage because there were so many toolbars installed
I like how modern Web browsers are designed to prevent toolbars from existing at all by only taking 2 rows of vertical space (tabs + address bar).
i also have bookmarks 3rd row
I probably use IE for around 30% of my web browsing. The reason for that is my job. Lots of our in house websites won't load using other web-browsers. SO I'd hope that the rest of the .75% of IE users are like me.
Also my occasional retro computer web-search.
8:52 EB Games in the top right corner? What even is that lol
I caught that too
EA ripoff ? EB? EC?
I'm genuinely surprised that no one has gotten this reference 😂
@@MichaelMJD EB Games was Electronics Boutique, but I didn't see the tie-in.
@@MichaelMJD Call Of Duty, Advanced Warfare, Xbox One, Copy that.
Our family PC used to have this, I remembered from the icon.
But we weren't even using explorer, we were using firefox. I don't know why it was installed.
i am from 2022, it is gone now.
Google knows their priorities.
Keeping some old toolbar alive while killing off all the actual useful services (excluding Google+).
"You're using Chrome, that's great. All of the features of Google Toolbar are already built into your browser."
That's an outright lie (to say nothing of the comma splice). I _still_ miss the ability to enclose multiple terms in quotation marks and use the automatically created buttons to scroll through (or highlight) every instance on a webpage, including one from the search results. Ctrl+F pales in comparison.
When the Firefox extension was discontinued, I manually edited the compatible version numbers to force its installation until it literally stopped working. Then I downgraded to the previous version of Firefox and refused to upgrade until _that_ began to break with age.
Why Google didn't actually include "all of the features of Google Toolbar" in Chrome is beyond me.
Just seeing XP and MSN gave me a lovely wave of nostalgia. Miss the simpler times of giving my PC AIDS
8:52 E8Games / EBGames in the top right corner?
99% sure it's EBGames. The logo looks identical.
Whole Ingress community was using Google+. Did you even try it? Its a shame that they killed such a good platform, even if so few people were using it.
P.S: searching Yahoo in Google Toolbar, man you nailed it. Your videos are full of nostalgic, keep doing them :)
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Why this happens all the time?
Something about UA-cam readjusting the view count for newer videos. It's also why some videos are stuck at 301 views.
@@MrFreddy123 it stopped doing that in 2014-2016.....
@@Kawke Well shit idk I'm not the CEO of UA-cam
@@Kawke yes except for the video by numberphile “Why do youtube views freeze at 301?” Which they left permanently frozen at 301 views as an easter egg
I just tried this - surprised it still works with IE11 in Windows 10!
To be fair, windows 10 looks like it does not fit in windows 10´s design language
👌😂
Perfection
I was one of the two people who used Google+! I stopped using it some years before it shut down though.
Thanks for the request, Michael!
Now if you excuse me, I'm going to dab.
Hey its 2021 you cant do that
Isn't that a cough in elbow emoticon?
@@GrayDaDolf Yeah, but just by its look, you can use it as the dabbing emote.
Google Toolbar was also distributed as a Mozilla plug-in for Firefox from September 2005 to June 2011. On December 12, 2021, the software was no longer available for download, and the website now redirects to a support page.
I don't think he knew that IE exists on Windows 10
Incorrect.
@@MichaelMJD o my god I got a reply
@@MichaelMJD well I did install it on the IE version on Windows 10 and it did work. But nonetheless nice video.
@trashboy everyone has it, it's built into Windows 10
yo, heart this comment @Michael MJD
What you doing with the EB Games logo there? :)
This is the best kind of useless information I have ever known about.
man i remember using this thing back when i was still using ie in 2004 or something.
only reason for that was the popup blocker, because back then basically every webpage had huge amount of popups.
and they were also so full of ads, that my poor old amd duron 1,2ghz pc with 512mb ram on windows xp barely could keep up.
then i moved to use opera for few years and around the same time as Mozilla changed Firebird to Firefox, i started to use it as my main browser and got used to web with adblockers.
ah, nostalgia, remember the old days of browser extensions
They still exist
Perhaps you mean toolbars
You can change that youtube on ie dont open in msedge in edge's settings
You can disable the automatic redirect to edge in the settings by selecting 'never' for open incompatible sites in edge in the edge settings.
When will the video about windows xp 64-bit edition vs x64 edition com out?
"Using internet explorer 10-15 years ago"
Me, who has been using Firefox since late 2006-early 2007: okay
You can download it on Microsoft edge only if you turn on "internet explorer mode"
I really don’t understand why you don’t have 1M subscribers.
I remember having this as a kid and I would install it on all the PCs I used. Even though I never used it I thought it was cool
Same haha