Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox released

Google has finally released version two of their browser toolbar for Firefox. The new version picks up on some of the features that have been in the latest version for IE for some time, but as they state on the Official Google Blog, Firefox and IE users have different needs, so there are some differences between the two toolbars.

Luckily, it appears that everything I was hoping for is there, including spell checking (including a new 'autofix' feature), Send from Gmail which intercepts mail links online and allows you to use Gmail as your mail client rather than popping up another mail client's window, and some classic features like the ability to go up a level, AutoFill in online forms, and of course the famous PageRank indicator.

Of course enterprising Firefox users have probably found ways to replicate most of this functionality using other extensions. But it's nice to get the "official" one from Google, that contains so much useful functionality all packaged neatly together. Now I can leave my search field in Firefox set to search DownloadSquad and use the search field on the Google Toolbar to search Google.

Tags: browsertips, Firefox google toolbar, FirefoxGoogleToolbar, freeware, google toolbar, google toolbar 2, Google Toolbar for Firefox, GoogleToolbar, GoogleToolbar2, GoogleToolbarForFirefox, pagerank, search