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Yahoo has announced a beta release of the Yahoo! Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. According to Yahoo, the Yahoo! Toolbar Beta will enable Firefox users to fully customize their Internet experience.

"The Yahoo! Toolbar provides Internet users with a faster, safer and personalized Web experience," said Eckart Walther, director product development, Yahoo! Search. "Yahoo! is now making this functionality available to Firefox users, enabling them to improve their Internet browsing experience using Yahoo!'s industry-leading toolbar."

Yahoo Toolbar features include:

1. Bookmarks and custom buttons that follow you anywhere
2. "Search this site" to find results just for the current web site
3. Search history to remember your previous searches
4. "Translate this page" based on the popular Babelfish tools
5. Mail notification/alerts when new Yahoo! Mail arrives
6. One click access to Yahoo! Games, Finance, News, Sports and any web site you choose
7. One click "Add to My Yahoo!" on sites that provide RSS/Atom feeds

"We're excited about the release of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Firefox has been downloaded more than 23 million times since its launch in November and the Yahoo! Toolbar release demonstrates the popularity of the browser and the success of the Mozilla platform. We're very pleased that Yahoo! is supporting browser choice and innovation with this new product."

The Yahoo! Toolbar Beta for Mozilla Firefox is available for download at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox.

The toolbar is currently available for Windows, with versions for MacOS X, Linux and the Yahoo! Anti-Spy expected shortly.

Rich Ord is the CEO of iEntry, Inc. which publishes over 200 websites and email newsletters. Rich also publishes his blog WebProBlog which focuses on internet business and marketing trends.