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The browser toolbar boom is back in the spotlight
Original: 📰 «La fiebre de las toolbars en el navegador» 🔗 https:// proxy.jesusysustics.com/2026/1 0/31830/ La era de las toolbars:
Spanish tech coverage is revisiting the era of browser toolbars, when Internet Explorer became so cluttered with add-on toolbars that there was barely room left for web pages. The piece looks back at the toolbar craze as a defining — and much-maligned — chapter of the early web, prompting nostalgia and discussion about today's browser extension clutter.
Why now: Nostalgia and comparisons to modern browser extension overload are driving renewed discussion of the old toolbar era.
Evidence
- 📰 «La fiebre de las toolbars en el navegador» 🔗 https:// proxy.jesusysustics.com/2026/1 0/31830/ La era de las toolbars: cuando Internet Explorer se quedó sin sitio para Internet https://www. muycomputer.com/2026/09/13/la-… · proxy@proxy.jesusysustics.com
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