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A person who has used IE 6 or Firefox 2.0 may find the modern obsession with toolbars to be quite amusing. After all, it was possible to surf the web in a productive way without relying on toolbars, right? Firefox was the software application that introduced the concept of toolbar in a big way when it offered the Google toolbar pre-installed in the web browser.
Many people discovered that the toolbar helped them search for stuff on the internet without any difficulty. Then came toolbars that helped people check their e-mail without accessing their accounts again and again.
However, what really spiked the toolbar revolution was the rising popularity of social networking websites. A toolbar that lets you access multiple social networking web sites in a span of a few seconds is very useful for social networking activities.
One just has to type the username and password of different accounts and permit the toolbar to remember these same. Log in is automatic the moment the web browser starts. From that point on, it is just a question of clicking on the right button to share stuff on the internet.
Another significant advantage in favor of the toolbar revolution is the increase in the screen real estate. It is difficult to imagine that we once used old-fashioned small CRT monitors. Today, one can have a large screen LCD monitors that permits multiple toolbars to be opened without any loss of screen space. This was a reason that changed the way people used toolbars when using computers.
