Yahoo! Search today announces the UK & Ireland general availability of the Yahoo! Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The Yahoo! Toolbar enables Mozilla Firefox users to fully customise their internet experience.

"The Yahoo! Toolbar provides a faster, safer and more personalised search experience for users," said Salim Mitha, Director Yahoo! Search, UK & Ireland. "Following on from extensive beta testing, Yahoo! is now making this functionality generally available to Firefox users in the UK & Ireland, enabling them to improve their internet browsing experience using Yahoo!'s industry-leading toolbar."

Key Yahoo! Toolbar features available for the Mozilla Firefox browser include:

Access to the full Yahoo! Search experience from anywhere on the web

Award-winning Anti Spy feature for Firefox users on Windows

Ability to save a web page to Yahoo! My Web at the push of a button, so you never lose a page again

"Search this site" to find results from the current web site

Search history to remember your previous searches

Yahoo! Mail notification/alerts when new mail arrives

One click access to Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Personals, Mobile and any web site you choose

Access via the browser menu bar to all toolbar functions allows users to use keyboard shortcuts rather than their mouse


The Yahoo! Toolbar UK & Ireland version for Mozilla Firefox is available for download at yahoo.co.uk/toolbar. The toolbar is currently available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. Windows users benefit from the toolbar's award-winning Anti-Spy feature.