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To Toolbar, or not to Toolbar

June 3rd, 2009 by Imad in Firefox, Yamli

As some of you may know, we released a preview of our Firefox add-on last week. We didn’t go out of our way to publicize it, since we mostly wanted to get everyone’s feedback regarding the functionality, and bugs of course :) The response was very enthusiastic, but many of you wrote back suggesting to offer another non-toolbar mode.

Obviously many people have been traumatized by toolbars that popped out of nowhere after installing an unrelated piece of software, and especially with smaller resolutions people prefer to have a clean browser interface that maximize the browser content area .  On the other hand, toolbars can be very useful with the proper set of tools and added functionality.  So we decided to offer users the option:  You can choose to keep the full functionality of the toolbar, or you can go with a lighter and minimalistic option that we call the “mini mode”:

After you install the Yamli add-on, you will get to make the choice.  You can change the mode anytime later by clicking through the options.

I hope everyone who removed the toolbar will re-install the add-on (here) and give it a try.  I also want to let everyone know that we’re not done with Yamli for Firefox, and are open to everyone’s ideas and suggestions.  We have a few things that we think you’ll all enjoy that will progressively get included as we implement them.

Let us know what you think!

5 Responses to “To Toolbar, or not to Toolbar”

  1. Ghassan Kreidly Says:

    fantastic idea….,congratulations,keep going on.

  2. Ahmed Kachkach Says:

    The plugin is Amazing, and so is your website!

    I’m kind’of a Yamli veteran =D I’ve been using it since it first appeared.

    So I was so shocked when I’ve seen what GOOGLE have made …

    http://www.google.com/transliterate/arabic/

    I really hope the Yamli team have something to do with this, cause if it’s not the case, it’s a pure COPY of your engine!

  3. LadyA Says:

    Hello
    can’t wait to test the toolbar
    the whole concept is great for me who can’t have an arabic keyboard.

    I have one question though : Do you plan an add-on for windows live messenger? That will have a smashing success
    Thank you very much and keep the good work

  4. ahmed Says:

    Thank you very much indeed for your(Yamly)engine.

  5. Hadia Says:

    Do you have a plugin to use yamli editor in MSN messenger?

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