Toolbar - what is it? Set the toolbar
Traveling the Internet every day, wewe need a convenient and fast access to the most necessary information, which includes data on weather, exchange rates and so on. Each time to go to several different sites is extremely uncomfortable, and therefore have to look for affordable, reliable and simple alternatives.
General concepts
Such a tricky word is called a common panelfor the browser. If you have anything to do with the computer, then for sure you have an idea about the "Yandex-bar", "Satellite" from Mail.ru and other similar products. This is all the Toolbar. What is it, if we talk about functional?
What are the toolbars for?
By the way, why did they come up with all thesepanels for browsers? Was it possible to do with simple bookmarks? We partially answered these questions at the beginning of the article. It is much more convenient to customize the toolbar once to display the required data, than to constantly visit the site. In addition, the panel consumes much less traffic, which is extremely critical for users with USB modems.
Note that the latter is true only for normal toolbars that do not have adware and spyware.
How to install?
So we figured out the purpose of these usefulapplications. But it's much harder to install a normal Toolbar. What does it mean? The fact is that in recent years malicious applications are constantly being disguised as malicious applications, which we strongly recommend not to put on a computer.
As a rule, there are no complications with theinstallation does not happen. To do this, just go to the site of the manufacturer of interest to you, and then click on the item "Install Yandex toolbar", or for something like that. After that, the application will be automatically installed into your browser. Most often, you will need to restart the application to continue working, after which a new panel will appear in your Internet browser.
As you can see, it's very easy to install the toolbar. As a rule, the user's participation is minimal.
How to set up?
For the toolbar to meet all your requirements andprovided the information you need, it needs to be properly configured. Let's look at this issue with the example of the Chrome Toolbar from the well-known domestic company Mail.ru. Of course, many users do not unfairly consider all of its products to be weakly trustworthy, but in some situations its use is justified.
The settings are pretty biting: By clicking on the "Weather Forecast" button, you can tell the program for which specific city you need information about the weather. Also, by clicking on the "Mail" button, you will be able to specify your login and password in the electronic box, after which information about the emails that have come to you will be displayed directly on the browser panel. Attention! This toolbar does not allow the use of third-party mailboxes, so if necessary, you will have to look for an alternative.
Which toolbars are really useful?
Given the huge amount of junk on the Internet, it will be useful to talk about those toolbars that carry a real functional load.
Firstly, this is the panel from "Rambler". Known in the recent past, the search engine now has far fewer fans, but its toolbar is quite good. It also allows you to find out the weather forecast and currency quotes, you can connect your email box to it. The panel has a very ascetic design, does not stand out against the general background of "Chrome". Does not contain any intrusive advertising, and if necessary completely removed from the system.
Yahoo
Of course, in our country, Yahoo does not have as many loyal fans that this service has in the US, but some users of the "old temper" do not change their old habits.
The fact is that a dozen or two years ago,when in Russia the Internet just appeared, Yahoo was almost the only sane search engine. Today the toolbar from this company also provides information retrieval capabilities, offers a weather forecast (you will need a Zip code for your city), as well as quotes.
As in past cases, this panel hasrather simple appearance, without standing out against the background of the browser where it was installed. If there is such a need, it is easy to temporarily disable it or even completely remove it. The benefit of that it does not contain any spyware.
The virus or not?
As we have already said, not all toolbars are the sameare useful. Very often under the guise of these kinds of programs are distributed various malicious applications, whose presence on the computer is highly undesirable. They steal passwords, redirect users to phishing sites, which can completely leave you without a penny, transferring all your credit card information to third parties.
This is what the Toolbar is for. What it is and how to set it up, you just found out.
