Toolbar

Called A toolbar, toolbar, or even (English) Toolbar and Toolbox, it is a horizontal or vertical bar with small, often illustrated buttons that serve as elements of the expanding menu of programs with graphical user interface.

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With toolbars shortcut is in many programs to specific, commonly used, allows functions as a simple mouse click on the thumbnail images (icons ) the main functions, such as the "Save", "Print" or "Copy" are quickly available. A very famous toolbar represents the taskbar of Microsoft Windows

With the introduction of toolbars, the question of how to best explain to the user the buttons. These first Balloon Helps were used, but these were quickly replaced by tooltips.

In contrast to the mostly static menu bars also toolbars can be configured by the user frequently to increase their effectiveness and ease of use. This can usually not only symbols are inserted and removed, but often more toolbars are created.

Browser toolbars

A special position toolbars in web browsers, such as the Google toolbar. This allows special features of the most common browsers (such as zooming the current page, deleting cookies ), and links to websites of the provider call quickly and directly. By now offer all major search engines and other websites toolbar for direct use of their services - but are such offers in most cases also spyware since they send information about the surfing behavior of the user to the editor.

A special type of a toolbar is called the Sidebar, which is wider by the lateral arrangement generally and thereby more functions can accommodate.

Programmed a series of dubious providers and distributes toolbars that massive nest in the user's system to permanently open such as pop - up windows or to change the home page permanently, with the aim to aggressively advertise commercial websites. One speaks in this case of browser hijackers and spyware. Uninstall is often only possible with special software.