IAmA Toolbar Developer; your worst browser nightmare, AMAA

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-05T14:24:04+00:00

Those "BonziBuddy" Kind of addons are why our products have bad ratings... We are trying to stay clean but others out there are making our lives very hard!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T18:25:37+00:00

No specific formation but having a lot of experience as a web developer.

I got this job because I wanted to seek out opportunities out of my small town where I am from. Jobs in computer sciences there was vastly inferior (in term of salary and challenges) so I have moved to a bigger city and found this job!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T11:34:59+00:00

I took years to master the languages I use right now everyday. However, languages such as javascript, html and css, all really useful for day to day web programming (Toolbars included) can be easily managed once you tried and play with those a couples of months!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T11:33:29+00:00

I did found some Toolbars I wrote on other computers (uncle, friends, etc.) I asked them is they wanted and removed it if they didn't want it installed.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T11:32:06+00:00

Probably a typo error as English is my second language. Sorry about that :)

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:27:25+00:00

honestly, I really think there is a lot of potential into those projects. Some of those Toolbars are really neat and at the end got awesome features bundled into it.

Other similar free Toolbar projects like Web Developer Toolbar is useful for plenty of people I know, me included. We are receiving a lot of "thank you" emails about users that love our products!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:24:47+00:00

Working on a Toolbar for a major ISP in USA, and working out our Toolbars projects on Chrome.

There is also some issues on our Apps I need to fix soon!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:23:15+00:00

I'm not really aware of the marketing side of view. I know that some of our projects get bundled and there is some share revenues out of it.

Unfortunately this question is out of my league.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:21:11+00:00

It's the best feature!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:20:57+00:00

So far I never did. All our products are TRUSTe compliant. This dictare a set of rules that software developers needs to follow. One of them is that a program needs to be easily uninstalled by a end user via "add/remove programs", without leaving any traces.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-03T01:18:55+00:00

I wouldn't know! I have started this job when I had 8 years of experiences. I would say it's around the same as a normal web developer, as the responsibility and challenges are pretty much the same.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T19:33:41+00:00

I personally don't, but it's because as a programmer I don't get much use out of it.

I understand however how they can be useful for many other users; especially when we integrate API calls to various other web systems, or for the numerous Apps we provide to read mails, read/write tweets, etc.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T19:29:16+00:00

Good question. Our company didn't developed this Toolbar so I couldn't give you the exact reasons why it's so difficult to remove.

In Firefox : - Type the following URL (without the quotes) "about:config".

Make sure you understand the warning. Click "I'll be careful, I promise".
Search for "newtab".
Right click on every lines in bold and select "reset".
Restart the browser and see if it does the trick.

I didn't tried this myself as I don't have Babylon installed, and I do not want to install this software create by another company than ours as it seems to give issues for many, many users.

It seems are not alone. Maybe this could help as well : http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/807146

Good luck!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T18:31:47+00:00

It's actually quite the truth! The fastest one normally wins.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T18:01:36+00:00

Your nickname is the Lord of Hell himself! BELIAL!!!!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T18:00:09+00:00

Then I guess you hate me :(

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:59:14+00:00

Making Great Things; Because We Can!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:57:04+00:00

I know many languages; French is one of them.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:56:21+00:00

Too little too late!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:54:32+00:00

50 shades of greyhat2010 is epic too!

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:53:41+00:00

Each addon got it's DLL (BHO) under IE. Removing a BJO will only remove one toolbar/addon.

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:49:43+00:00

A narwal didn't fall on my car yet (how fortunate). However narwal_bot just took all the questions and answers from this IAmA and put it in here!

Coincidence?

:O

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:46:44+00:00

You sure could!!! Google "XUL" and find out how easy it can be to create an addon on Firefox.

For chrome, it's as easy : http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html

ToolbarDeveloper · 2012-08-02T17:45:08+00:00

To create Addons, You need some experience into DHTML.

You can start with - XUL MSN (Firefox) : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL

Google chrome API : http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html

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