New Google toolbar for firefox with chrome look

Google released a second beta of its toolbar software for Firefox that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google’s own Chrome.

In Chrome, when you open a new tab, the browser displays a page with up to nine miniature versions of pages you visit often–a selection of what you’ve shown to be your collective home page. The new beta version of Toolbar 5 does the same for Firefox, including not just the miniature pages, but also the list of recent bookmarks and recently closed tabs that Chrome shows.

There are still no ads, though, which I wonder about given Google’s new interest in improving its profitability.

According to Google toolbar programmer Sergey Ryazanov’s blog post on the subject, you can select the specific pages you want, and none of the information is sent back to Google.