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Yahoo! announced yesterday the release of Yahoo! Toolbar 1.0 for Mozilla Firefox, a toolbar "polished to a high gloss" for use on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Jon Granrose, Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager and Firefox instigator, dropped the news on Yahoo!'s Search Blog.

The folks at Yahoo! have gushed over Mozilla's web browser offering since its release last November. The Firefox browser has since topped 75 million downloads worldwide.

The new Yahoo! toolbar features:

Bookmarks that follow you to any computer

New mail notification for Yahoo! Mail

Customizable, one-click access to most of Yahoo!, or any web site you choose

Easy access to Yahoo! Search with an integrated search history for quick re-use

Addition of RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! page with one click

Also, they've added a few modifications to the browser itself. They are:

A drag-n-drop resizable search box

A right mouse click menu to open bookmarks and toolbar buttons in new windows or tabs

A search history drop down that automatically expands to the length of the longest search query

Yahoo! Anti-Spy button that you can hide

Addition of RSS / Atom feeds to My Yahoo! via the Live Bookmarks icon

Support for the latest Firefox developer releases and alpha/beta browsers

The new utility comes with customizable Avatars and the new desktop search tool. Granrose promises more updates to come and the Yahoo! toolbar team is open to suggestions and comments.

Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.