I found many people searching for google toolbar support for google chrome, and wondering why, it is not added to google chrome yet, both being Google’s projects and very popular at that.
However, Google Is Bringing a lot of feature of Google Toolbar to Chrome by default. Very soon, we will have the translation inbuilt to chrome via a Translation Bar and for others, there are official extensions available. Click here to find the full list. You can try this extension too
I also had no idea why this is so. But when I was uninstalling Google Toolbar from firefox, I kinda figured out why it is not there on Chrome yet.
Fact that we all know : We love the simple layout of Google Chrome for many reasons, and the most important reason : It gives more screen space. Google Chrome is designed to give you a better browsing experience, as far as space is concerned, and they have done this very well, and that does not come very easily … I am sure they have worked very hard on this.
If you have noticed, when Extensions are enabled, Google Chrome will not let them take more space from your screen area, that’s how they are making the extensions work too.
All this hard work, and they add Google Tool Bar to Chrome … then it will look a MESS !!
because it consumes so much from the screenspace… correct people ? Well, that should be the reason for Chrome still being away from Google Toolbar.
What Makes Me Think This Way
When you uninstall Google Toolbar on Firefox, you are supposed to tell them why you are doing that, a feedback . And one among the most common reasons listed for you to select from is, ” It’s Taking My Screen Space” ( or something similar ? ). So, I would say, Google have enough feedback from toolbar users ( who uninstalled it ? ) stating that they don’t want the google toolbar to take up more space.
So, in the current format, it’s not wise to add Google Toolbar to Chrome … what you think ?
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I have a “Search” folder on the Bookmarks Bar with links to about 300 search engines in it of various types sorted out into subfolders.
Now I don’t need Google Toolbar that hogs too much memory.
300 search engines ?
pretty cool 
You shouldn’t use toolbars and weather widgets. They use up way too much memory and Slooooooooooooooooooow down your browser. Toolbars are only offered to you so their owners can spy on you. So why be spied on and slow down your browser when there are alternatives.
I use the method above and I also use IE Style Accelerators through Kallout.com. It works in all of your browsers. I have 9 browsers and it works in all of them. No they don’t know I’m telling you this so don’t consider it spam.
true, I haven’t seen many people using toolbars, actually ..
I don’t use Chrome for it’s extra screen space, I mean I could configure FF that way if it was that important. I use it because it’s extremely fast, seems to lag a lot less than FF and it’s a new shinier thingy.
I use Google toolbar all the time. It’s a quick and easy way to do searches (for me at least). It has a lot of features I can put right up on the toolbar and use immediately.
Frankly I’m not going to go to a bookmarked folder then grab the search engine I want and so on. It might work for some–and that’s great–but it’s a step backward in usability I think.
Google Chrome with no Google toolbar 9 months later? Bizarre to say the least. One of the reasons I don’t use Chrome as my primary is the lack of extensions like the toolbar and zoom buttons (we each have our own likes).
but you can search using the address bar, I think it’s better than the google toolbar search option
but if you are using google toolbar for some other stuff … right, you will miss it !
I love the space saving and frugal look of Chrome and it has become my regular (not yet default) browser. The only reason I miss my Google toolbar is that I no longer have access to my bookmarks across computers. The solution to that is copying the bookmarks physically, but it is not as good as signing in to your account and having all your bookmarks there.
well, this will be addressed soon
you will have the bookmarks and other browsing data on clouds !
If chrome is so worried about screen real estate, why does their omnibar span the entire width of the browser?
In order to incorporate the google toolbar simply cut the omnibar in half and use some of that space for the toolbar links – that’s what I do in Firefox and I currently have just as much screen space.
The Bookmarks option is about the only thing that I use from Google toolbar, if this were added to Chrome in some form, I would switch to it as my default browser in a heartbeat.
you can install a chrome plugin to get google bookmarks on your chrome installation !
How to you get a drop down clickable list of your google bookmarks?
I don’t like the suggestion to add google bookmarks as an engine in chrome.
I need bookmarks to follow me from computer to computer and google toolbar is the quickest way to do this.
I would want Spell Check, in addition to, Bookmarks in Chrome as both contain personal settings that I don’t want to update in multiple places.
I’m with Scruff and Zadok: Who uses Google Toolbar for the toolbar? I generally just pinch a couple of buttons off of it, primarily the bookmarks button. Maybe once in a while I will enable the toolbar itself temporarily if I want to use one of the other buttons.Really, I think it would make more sense to call it Google for your Firefox Toolbars than Google Toolbar. The Toolbar itself may well just be a carry-over from the IE version of Google Toolbar, which really does have to be an entire toolbar (however, I believe it can share a row with other toolbars, unlike in Firefox).
Chrome->settings(The wrench symbol)->Import bookmarks and Settings->Google toolbar
The above will get you all the google toolbar bookmarks.
I would gladly sacrifice a little bit of screen real estate for the Google Toolbar. Lack of toolbar is the main reason I’m not using Chrome. Most essential features: Google bookmark access (synchronized), AuotFill, AutoLink, and Send to.
I need the google toolbar because of the translate option, among other things. Aren’t there plugins or anything?
Don’t bother DL the toolbar, it’s just slow down your browser.
I think I’ll switch back to Firefox until an option for the Google Toolbar exists. With dyslexia, I must have a spell checker. It is after all, an OPTION, not a requirement. If Google isn’t willing to provide it because they got ‘feedback’, that their decision, and it doesn’t prevent me from using Google Toolbar, just from using Chrome.
i dont think google is not using toolbar because of the space. they already have one row for bookmarks. they could have used the same space for the toolbar.
May be they are trying to find a better way then the existing toolbar.
I am not too much agree with the reason. If google is concerned about space, then it would have changed the design of the toolbar to fit in the space. like one small icon and showing other features on dropdown when u click on it.
Silpa T is the google bookmarks option new?
Will it Autosink? This is good.
It worked like a charm but would be great if it was able to automatically sink back to the google cloud. so I can get them on different browsers and different computers.
OK, I broke down and decided to use Chrome. It’s working smoother than Firefox right now. I do miss the Google Toolbar though and hope it gets integrated some day.
@Jose Padin there is bookmark sync, but I was disappointed to see that it does not directly integrate with Google (online) Bookmarks. It only synchronizes bookmarks between different computers. I miss this the most, but am using work arounds to access Google Bookmarks.
@MCMalkemus: Chrome DOES have a built-in spell-check.
@Krasno: Try this for translation. Don’t know if it works by worth a try? http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/new-ext-bubble-translate-8189.html
google toolbar have more feature then just the bookmarks
the spell check i love
the various options that let me quickly search in a new tab
and highlight any thing that i searched in the toolbar
way faster to search in thru the toolbar becuase u can set it up to open a new tab when u hit enter …. u can highlight what u searched for with one click
i mean how small of screens are u working with
one toolbar is not going to decrease the space
The reason there is not a google toolbar for chrome is that google does not need it.
By using chrome google already knows everything you do online, with another browser they need to add the spyware toolbar
I love AutoFill.
Can’t they have a more button to bring up add ons?
It would not reduce the real estate.
we need google toolbar for translation especially
sounds like a good realization. i love chrome and will always use it whenever i use the internet
I don’t need the whhole toolbar, just the Google Search function. It is great for finding correct spelling for words without leaving your page. They can fit the search area on the same line as the locatripon bar.
Frankly all I care about is having all the bookmarks I saved on it. Just over here on Chrome.
But if people WANT it, then it is not taking up too much space as far as they are concerned. As long as it’s an option you can turn on and off, what’s the issue?
Google toolbar has many nice features. One that I use frequently is the “highlight” feature and the ability to jump directly to any keyword that I used in the search. It’s very nice for quickly finding things on a large webpage with lots of text. The spellchecker is also great! There are many great extensions with Firefox that simply are not available with Chrome. Chrome is like a very capable smartphone that has no app support.
I miss the auto-translate feature that is provided by the Google Toolbar. With it you can simply click a button to translate a web page from its current language to your default language of choice. I continue to use Firefox as my main browser for now.
What about the page-rank ? Besides… its Google Toolbar… people should have the option to install it if they want to.
As most of you said above I miss Google Toolbar primarily for the bookmarks feature . Also I can click the drop down and select my previous search keys without re-typing them.
I miss a spell check and a few other features of the “toolbar” that could easily be added to one of the pull-down menus in the upper right, or as a hotkey like the new bookmarks feature (ctrl+B)
I Think that we should have the Option to install toolbars , with warning that performance may suffer.
That way we decide if the functionality gained is worth the performance and real estate trade off.
Usability, in web design, is all about doing what the users want not what the designers want. And the web is a much better place for it.
Remember the 80s and 90s, it makes me shudder!
Normally Google does great usability design, However this time i feel they dropped the ball. (Or may be they are still designing our toolbar system).
I just wanted to note that i did want to be notified when some one adds to the thread.
This theory doesn’t make sense, since right now I have a Google Bookmark Bar across the top of my Chrome screen where on it I have icons for various webpages, calendar, dictionary, etc., and a bookmarks icon where I store new bookmarks from Chrome and have downloaded others from my Google Tool Bar on Firefox. Its not the same as the Google Tool Bar because it is not stored off-line, but it still shares the same space the Google Tool Bar would go. So it doesn’t make sense Google would not offer their Tool Bar for space sake, yet allow some thing similar to fill the space.
I don’t agree that Google Toolbar takes up any appreciable amount of space, unless, of course, you have other toolbars installed? I don’t care either way about the toolbar but AutoFill and the Spell Checker are things I frequently use and until they are available in Chrome it will just be another icon on my desktop.
you do realize that chrome as right click spell checking and auto fills.
Still if you don’t want to use chrome, thats ok , your the one missing out
It’s not just spell checking, it’s the suggestions in the Google Search Box that use to be to the right of the location bar, that remembers from tab to tab. The search Box offders much betters suugestions than the Chrome location bar and goes beyond spell checking, without your WEB history, etc… Why do we need such a giant location bar? It also remembers your last Google Search term for you. It was very convenient. Spell checking is not nearly as comprehensive as Suggestions and spell checking in forms has always been there underlining in red
VERY DISAPPOINTED with google recently. No toolbar for their highly touted Chrome. Toolbar doesn’t work with COMCAST, VISTA, I.E. 8. Try to alleged toolbar compatible IE 8 and it won’t install. GMAIL doesn’t work with very popular semantec products.
GMAIL still disfunctional. Their help is useless. Wrote GMAIL problem months ago and jst got an answer (FOund an answer….go back to version 1.0.
I guess the $$ are now blinding teir creativity
Chrome is not need Google toolbar actually, because the toolbar is designed for other non-Google browsers virtually, so when that guys develop Chrome, you can type words in address area to search, and there are (or will be) more and more great and useful extensions to support the feature functions.
For me toolbar is the thing that keeps me from using chrome — working as I do across 5 different computers regularly, the synchronized bookmarks are a must have.
@ Lloyd
but bookmark syc is now available !! and most of google toolbar features are inbuilt in google chrom
Yes, some features of the google toolbar are included in chrome, but I miss a clean blank space to type the search subject rather than typing in the already crowded navegation bar. Most importantly, I miss the option of highlighting the key words in order to find them straight away. I know Google chrome has a similiar feature but you have to click several times to get to it and and it doesn’t let you just write a new word that you want to look for in the page you are in. Anyone doing serious and complex search jobs would miss these features. Actually, for me the rest of the google bar features are irrelevant.
I am keeping firefox until the bar is is included in chrome.
@ Antonio Sanchez
but isn’t it easier to search using the address bar ( Omni Bar ) ?
The point that people keep missing is that with google toolbar your bookmarks follow you.
Its not a 1 time Sync.
They are always there for you on any computer you log into.
In Chrome you can do a 1 time import and even after you do a 1 time import the format is all out of order an unorganized.
There is a big difference in the way the old Google Toolbar responds with suggestions than the new Google Location Bar. Location bar just mostly looks at your history and names of WEB sites, while toolbar suggestions are for words, & subjects that are revalent to what your are typing in, not WEB sites URLs. Toolbar is real handy for finding words spellings, popular subjects, location bar is just URLs & History. Toolbar I liked so much more.
I use Chrome for my personal browsing, but I can’t use it for my research work. I need Googlebar Lite’s ability to highlight multiple search terms at a time on a page. I use this feature many, many times a day. It helps me find articles from specific sites that are in a Google search. Then it lets me go through the pages that I open from the Google search and skim for search terms quickly, so I can tell very rapidly whether this page will be useful to me or not. PLEASE Chrome developers, include this feature in Chrome as soon as possible.
It would be nice to have a way to access different search types (news, images, etc), right at the search bar.
An efficient auto-fill feature is missed by most, I believe. Having to click for each line of a form is not nearly as efficient.
I agree with most of the comments above, about features that are missing without the toolbar. I hope the developers can add each of them as quickly as possible.
I love, love, love the new translation feature in Chrome. Now I guess I’m greedy and want more features built-in, if we can’t have the Google toolbar.
The only problem with the argument against a Google toolbar is that it makes no sense. Having a Google toolbar available will not cause browsers to lose any screen space. It will not slow the browser down. It will not cause clutter. Why? Because add ons are optional. Anybody who does n0t want the toolbar already hasn’t it. The overwhelming number of people who are searching for it don’t have to install it either unless they want to, and if they do, they won’t mind the real estate issue because that’s what they want. The only problem is that they can’t add it because it does not exist.
Mozilla/Firefox/etc. had a simple and elegant solution: Design a browser that’s extensible so users can customize it with the features that they want. It should not have to affect other users when a feature becomes available to those who select it.
Well guess what?? Google did the same thing. They came up with an extensible browser that should render this sort of discussion moot. The power of Chrome should be that arguments like this never even have to come up. Having a toolbar available, and only for those who want it, is the whole point of designing Chrome with its inherent architecture.
I don’t need the toolbar. I just need the functionality. If it were there, I would not have to be looking for it.
@ Hagrinas
Most of Google toolbar services are being built in to Google Chrome browser. There are extensions for most of the other stuff. But for people who are lookinghttp://chromestory.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php#comments-form for a “bar” you might get disappointed.
I don’t want the bar, just the search box. The way the search box works is much different than the way the Chrome Location Bar works. I like search box much mo better. Is that asking to much? It won’ take up any more screen space, just make the location bar a little smaller. Location bar doesn’t need to be the width of the screen anyway.
@Hagrinas That has to be the single greatest post by anyone I have ever read on an anonymous board. Way to explain the obvious to people that are struggling to understand the obvious.
@ChromeStory How can you completely misunderstand the obvious point Hagrinas has made.
There is no pro or con argument for a toolbar. The people that want it. Want it. The people that don’t. Don’t need to know it exists. That way they won’t have to live in fear that there precious screen space may be encroached upon by an extremely useful tool. A tool that you don’t have to spend half a day googling around the internet trying to recreate the tool through a bunch of half functional hacks.
@ Jose Padin
I am trying to convince myself that Google is taking a different approach to Toolbar on chrome, say, without the bar. But I have to admit this process it – DEAD SLOW -
Thanks, Jose.
I don’t know how many extensions there are currently, but it would be easy for anybody here to find at least 100 that are not installed. It would make sense to go through each of those hundred and write a few paragraphs about why it was not needed, such as problems with real estate issues, duplication of functions, etc… But it would only make sense to those who would argue against a Google toolbar equivalent.
Nevertheless, there are still those who will argue against one and miss the point. I don’t happen to need a stock ticker extension, so should I seek out anybody who is looking for one and argue against it? If there were a forum for one, would it make sense for me to even read the forum and comment? Should I try to talk people out of one?
For those who are interested in any extension whatsoever, the debate should be over what’s in it and how it works. For those who are not interested, they have no reason to look for it in the first place, much less care about whether it gets developed, what gets put in it, or why others might want it.
Chrome developers should merely be assuring that there is a way for others to implement extensions. Remember that it’s not really the Google toolbar that one would be emulating–it would be the googlebar. It was originally an add on for Mozilla/seamonkey/firefox and was not part of the browser and not a Google product.
Google chose to copy it and make their version available. It’s a legitimate debate (for them) whether THEY should develop one for Chrome. It’s NOT a legitimate debate whether ONE SHOULD BE DEVELOPED. That’s the difference that people seem to be missing.
The question then becomes whether there are any shortcomings in Chrome that would prevent an extension developer from implementing any features that a user would desire.
Why didn’t I come across this article earlier? That’s some great analysis man. Thanks a lot.
you are welcome ! thanks a lot for ur kind words
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