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Posted by Steve Yegge, Software
Engineer

Our Seattle/Kirkland engineering office just celebrated its third
birthday! And like our friends in New York href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-build-it-they-will-eat-it.html" >
who recently commemorated an anniversary, we too had a very
special cake to mark the occasion, as you can see here.

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Posted by Justin Voskuhl, Software
Engineer

Here in the Kirkland, we've had one of the rainiest winters in
a long time, giving me extra time to work on the latest release of
the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Today, we're happy to release
the beta version of href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html" >Google
Toolbar 2 for Firefox. If you were wondering what we were doing
with that extra time indoors, Toolbar for Firefox is available for
Windows, Mac, and Linux — and in 16 languages.

This new release includes feed integration with the href="http://www.google.com/ig" >Google Personalized Homepage
and a number of other feed readers. We've made searching better
by including previous queries, spelling corrections, and
suggestions for popular choices. Gmail fans might appreciate having
the mailto: links in Firefox open a compose window in Gmail -– no
more copying and pasting email addresses. And to combat the
ever-increasing threat of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing" >phishing,
we've integrated the Safe Browsing extension into Toolbar to
alert you when a page is trying to steal sensitive information.
Check out everything in the new Toolbar href="http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/static.py?page=features.html&v=2.0f" >
here.

As a dedicated Firefox
user, I think that the latest version enhances an already
innovative browser. Meanwhile, you IE Toolbar 4 fans may notice
that the feature sets aren't identical. That's because
Firefox and IE users have different needs. Rest assured that
we're working to get the most popular features in both
versions.

Here's my new customized Firefox Toolbar, showing my Google
Personalized Homepage (built from feeds I discovered using the feed
feature). It also gives me history, popular queries, and query
corrections in my search box, which I moved to the upper right with
the new custom layout.

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