A handy tip from Lifehacker reader swc_oxcart for anyone giving Chrome Web Apps a try in the development version: right-click on a web app pinned tab, and you’ll see a “Show toolbar” option. While Chrome’s no-address-bar web apps are helpful in focusing on just one site, if you need to copy a URL or reach your extension buttons, this restores them to their standard place.
Windows only: Freeware software IObit Uninstaller removes multiple applications at once, scans the registry for leftovers and also removes annoying browser toolbars with a single click. More »
You could do it with CSS tweaks and various add-ons before, but the latest nightly builds of the next major Firefox version suggest that users will be able to add and remove any toolbar buttons, from both the main forward/back/address bar and the tab toolbar. More »
Google’s Toolbar does a few nifty things, but it is, well, a browser toolbar. And it might track your browsing without permission. Here’s how to get most of its features without having to install it, or nearly any extra software. More »
If you’re an Internet Explorer user and love you some Google Maps, Google now offers some Toolbar Labs, which are basically the standard Google Toolbar recompiled with experimental features. Along with a Simplified Chinese Toolbar, the other Labs remix right now adds auto-location feature. It’s kind of like Google Maps Mobile’s version, but using nearby Wi-Fi spots to pinpoint you and make your default business searches—pizza, car repair, bicycle shop—pinned to your location.
Reader James missed the ability to add a bookmark toolbar separator, a la Firefox’s “New Separator,” to the Safari browser. So he made his own using a wee bit of JavaScript trickery. More »
A Flickr user and Digg beta tester posted the above screenshot of the toolbar in development by the 900-lb. gorilla of link-sharing services. It’s JavaScript-based, offers Twitter-style URLs, and meant for hardcore Diggers. As you can see in the upper-right, the Digg toolbar, which should work with any modern browser, offers a StumbleUpon-like “Random” button to take you to a new, popular-on-Digg page, based in part on your own past Digg activity. And social network sharing links are ready to roll as well.
It’s obviously not something a casual Digg voter would get into, but would having a random Digg pointer make the link-voting site worth your free time? Cast your votes, and impressions, in the comments.
playing around w/diggbar bera [scottmeinzer's Flickr stream via TechCrunch]
