What Happened to the “Browser Toolbars” We All Use?

In the period corresponding to the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s; for shortcuts, for searching, for torrents, and for bloatware we accidentally installed There were different toolbars. Sometimes these bars even became so large that they covered the entire page.

The way to access Google easily was to either install a toolbar or type “” in the search bar.google.com” was to write. Size of the function of the rods Just think about it… Then they disappeared from our lives, but why?

Before we get to the end, let’s look at the beginning of toolbars.

We see that the adventure of toolbars dates back to before the internet or browsers became mainstream. It was none other than Microsoft who made them popular in the early 1990s. “Strips”, as they were known at the time, much more useful He was getting attention because of what he did.

Today, these ribbons continue to exist as an important part of Office applications. However, toolbars in 1995 With the introduction of Internet Explorer into our lives He went out to the moon.

The giant company Google emerged with a great purpose.

In the beginning, search bars made it easy to search Google from basically any website, but later they became much more than that. Access to high quality search results, Google’s intention was to make it easier than ever.

For example, after the emergence of Gmail, users used the toolbar could connect to their e-mails and could load saved bookmarks and history. Google toolbars; It also added features such as translation, autofill and spell check. All these features have made the Google toolbar quite functional.

Toolbars meant viruses.

Later, large companies such as Yahoo, Firefox, MSN and Amazon also expanded the toolbar craze. In fact, before Alexa became a “voice”, Amazon’s A toolbar called Alexa there was!

But not all toolbars were as innocent as Alexa. In the 2000s, they were associated with viruses. Users who only want to download “uTorrent” will have with dangerous software was encountering.

One day, we all used the toolbar for the last time, and none of us realized that it was the last time…

In 2008, Google created Chrome to increase its power. Chrome did not support toolbars. Scanner, “clean, not clogged by a bunch of appendages” It was presented as.

When Chrome was released, bloatware-ridden Internet Explorer also started to lose steam. People, It was pointing to Google’s browser. They didn’t really care if there was a toolbar or not because Google already offered everything needed.

Chrome, which became the mother of browsers, put an end to bars.

This is how toolbars disappeared from our lives without us even realizing it. Google, which made sticks popular, was also the end of them. Of course Loss of function with developing technology was also an important factor.

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