Those people who use the internet a lot know the importance of a good, clean and easy to use toolbar. A lot of free software which is available for download from the web comes a free toolbar included, which means that if you are not careful you can end up with a new bar every time you add a new piece of software to your PC. Many of these are pretty useless or, even worse, really annoying additions to your browser, so finding a good one is something which it is worth putting a little bit of time into.

If you are a keen user of the different Google facilities then a good option is simply to add this free toolbar onto your Mozilla Firefox browser and then stick with it, ignoring the prompts from other providers to download their tools.

Once you download the application you should only have to restart your Firefox browser in order to get started with it. If this doesn't work then the program will advise you to enable it using the add-on manager on the browser. If you need to do it this second way then you need to open the browser and then choose "tools", followed by "add-ons" and then open the add-on manager.

One of the first things you will notice about the Google Toolbar for Firefox is that you can jump straight to Google Mail, Google Earth and a number of other popular sites from the firm. This is very handy if you are a regular user of Google sites and want to free up some space in your favourites bar.

Another interesting feature is Sidewiki, which lets you add comments and videos to sites using a side bar, which other users can then rate. The features also include automatically internet form filling and spell checking.

As toolbars go this one is a lot more useful and much better designed than most. It lets you get the basics done simply and gives you lots of way of customising your search experience. Well worth trying if you don't already have a trusted toolbar on your browser.