In the period corresponding to the late 1990s and early 2000s; for shortcuts, for searching, for torrents, and for bloatware we accidentally installed There were several toolbars. Sometimes these bars even grew so large that they covered the entire page.

The way to easily access Google was to install a toolbar or type “” into the search bar.google.comwanted to write. Size of the function of the bars Think about it… Then they disappeared from our lives, but why?

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

We see that the adventure of toolbars predates the Internet or browsers becoming mainstream. It was none other than Microsoft who popularized them in the early 1990s. “Comics”, as they were known at the time, much more useful He got attention because of what he did.

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

The gigantic company Google was created with a great purpose.

In the beginning, search bars made it easy to search almost any website in Google, 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 rise of Gmail, users used the toolbar can connect to their emails and could load saved bookmarks and history. Google Toolbars; It also added features such as translation, autocomplete and spell check. All these features have made the Google Toolbar quite functional.

Toolbars meant viruses.

Later, major 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 harmless as Alexa. In the 2000s they were linked to viruses. Users who only want to download “uTorrent” will have that with dangerous software encountered.

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 lot of appendages” It was presented as.

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

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

This is how toolbars disappeared from our lives without us even realizing it. Google, which popularized sticks, also killed them. Naturally Loss of function when developing technology was also an important factor.

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