Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Hide Find Bar automatically hides the Find toolbar after it hasn't been used in a while, helpful for those of us that constantly forget to close it.

Whenever I am visiting a non-geek, a normal, non-tech savvy person, I am always amazed by the amount of useless toolbars I find in his/her computer. It’s like they always want to increase their ...

Very often I’m called upon to troubleshoot PCs belonging to friends and relatives. While poking around for problems, I almost always encounter the same oddity: a Web browser packed with toolbars.

Whenever I go to clean up a friend/relative’s computer that they complain is too slow there’s one thing I almost always find: Numerous browser toolbars, particularly in Internet Explorer. Not all ...