Have you ever found your Web browser loaded with mysterious toolbars out of the blue, and wondered where they came from? I see this all the time. One day someone’s browser is humming along as always, ...

You would think that in 2014, we’d have put all the web shenanigans of the 1990s and early aughts behind us, but you’d be wrong—at least for Windows users ...

Q: In the 05/02/15 Mailbag (“What happened to my favorites?“), you didn’t answer the second question, how to restore the toolbar at the top that lets Alice (and all of us) copy and paste things.

The Ask Toolbar is like a barnacle. It doesn’t necessarily hurt anything, but it’s also not the most pleasant thing to look at or deal with either. The toolbar, which is frequently bundled with ...

Since the heyday of toolbars (sometime back when IE 6 was a dominant force), Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, and Safari have all essentially replaced the functionality that these browser add-ons offered. With ...

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Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long ...

In the not-too-distant past, search toolbars were risky specialty add-ons offered by Internet marketing mavens. Users who installed search toolbars often were granting permission without knowing it to ...

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Think of Dailymotion as a more organized version of YouTube. There are well-defined categories and a more logical layout of videos. Think of Conduit as your one-stop ...