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We all know that mac developers have always been left high and dry when it comes to having to live without the Google toolbar, and therefore without the convenience of a PR bar while web browsing.

However, I stumbled upon this tool:

I'm a windows and mac user and I've yet to try it yet, but it does look quite promising. Don't ya think? I know a lot of mac people who have been begging for something like this.

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Short, practical update for anyone landing here years later: the old Google “PR” toolbar indicator is no longer a reliable public metric — Google turned off the public Toolbar PageRank feed and stopped updating visible PR scores, so chasing a toolbar number isn’t useful anymore; rely on modern authority/link metrics instead. This matters if you’re a Safari user like or tempted to switch browsers just to get a PR bar. (searchengineland.com)

Privacy note tied to ’s point: toolbars and some “helper” extensions have in the past transmitted full URLs and other browsing data (researcher Ben Edelman documented examples where tracking continued even after users tried to disable the toolbar). Always review an extension’s data-collection disclosures and the permissions it requests; prefer extensions that explicitly state they do not send browsing URLs to third parties, or use local-only tools. Modern browsers surface data-collection/permission info during install — read it. (benedelman.org)

Practical alternatives for Mac users who want in-browser SEO signals (without relying on the old Google bar): use a current SEO toolbar/extension — MozBar for Domain/Page Authority and quick on-page checks, Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar for DR/UR and backlink snapshots, or SEOquake for SERP overlays and audits. If a PageRank-style numeric score is required programmatically, the OpenPageRank API provides a PageRank-like value you can query. Safari-only users can look for App-Store Safari extensions or use a small web app/bookmarklet if they won’t install another browser; Firefox and Chrome support most of the extensions below if you change your mind (as noted). Quick example — query OpenPageRank with curl (replace YOUR_API_KEY and example.com):

curl -s -H "API-OPR: YOUR_API_KEY" "https://openpagerank.com/api/v1.0/getPageRank?domains[]=example.com"

See the extensions and API docs for installation and privacy details. (moz.rankious.com)

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It certainly looks useful but I'm not altogether comfortable with the concept of the google toolbar, because Google can use it to track every site you visit. Google actually seem to be fanatical about collecting information on people's browsing habits, particularly when you consider their tracking cookies that you accept when you use the google search tool never expire, but continue to send info on the sites you've visited to google....

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Being a Linux user at home (and a windows user at work) I too missed the google toolbar. However, after security problems with IE, I abandonded IE for Mozilla's Firefox. Recently I have been playing with Firefox extensions, and found , which not only lets you search google, but every part of google, from froogle to

P.S.: Firefox comes For the Mac as well!

P.P.S. Hope you're feeling better :)

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P.S.: Firefox comes For the Mac as well!

There's no way in hell she's going to install Firefox. She's... umm... just weird like that. "I'll only install if I *must*" is her motto.

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Did I mention that The Firefox Googlebar will let you search ? Not only that . . . but you get a nice warm and fuzzy feeling for supporting open source software. And to make things even better, Mozilla cares enough about Mac users to *make* a google toolbar for them. No longer are Mac users treated as second class citizens! No longer do Mac users have to suffer with sub-quality browsers!

. . . Oh, and Mozilla is one of the few browsers to render HTML code properly . . .

;)

. . . give it a try, you might like it :)

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Tattle tale ;) That motto does keep me out of the Security forum though!

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Hello,

I am a daily user of Mozilla Firefox on the Mac OS X platform. They had a kink in their previous release that interferred with DaniWeb details, but that has been fixed. I think it was a problem with the OS X version... the Linux one worked just fine.

Dani is a Safari lover. Which is Great.

Christian

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Yup, I'm a Safari fan :) What do you mean by "DaniWeb details" ?

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Yup, I'm a Safari fan

Cool. As long as you're happy w/ what ya got, and it's secure.

:)

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