Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.0 stars (out of 98 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  23,963

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server, Internet Explorer 5.01

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  May 15, 2006

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

From Viewpoint:

The Viewpoint Toolbar features graphically enhanced search technology and makes searching the Internet more fun, visual, and productive. With substantially improved speed and performance, this application also is packed with new features. You can now receive real-time thumbnail previews and text in the results tray, block annoying pop-ups with advanced Pop-Up Slammer technology, share favorite visual bookmarks with friends, and personalize the look and feel with skins. You can highlight and right-click to search directly from the Web page, get comparative results when searching with other providers, and enjoy image and multimedia search. You'll always receive accurate and relevant results provided by Yahoo search. The Viewpoint Toolbar is free and installs easily.

Version 3.5.0.54 includes fotomat.

Editor's review of Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

• 4.0 stars

This free toolbar offers a way to save bookmarks in visual form, and has a fairly capable pop-up blocker. The Viewpoint Toolbar has an attractive, compact interface that quickly expands when necessary. For example, if you want to view screenshots of bookmarks, you simply click a button to scroll through all images. Though the thumbnails are rather small, they're big enough to give you a general overview of a page's contents. The thumbnails have an annotation text from the search results, so you can quickly understand what a page is about. The pop-up blocker was mostly effective in our tests--except with floating ads. You can specify whether to allow ads from a certain site and whether to display an icon and play a sound when the toolbar blocks ads. You'll also find a basic search function and a simple tool for managing images. Since it offers a rather unique way to store bookmarks and doesn't cost a dime, we can see how Viewpoint Toolbar would benefit many Web surfers.

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  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

  "dont download"

  by troopre of hell on July 4, 2006

  Cons: spyware is all over the program and it doesnt work gets in the way and is very big

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• 1 stars

  Version: Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

  "Beware Trojan Horse security threat"

  by cw2go on February 22, 2007

  Pros: This product appears to have some useful features, but appeared on my system without my consent because I downloaded Viewpoint's Media Player, and it was installed surreptitiously and cost me quite a bit of time, so I did not evaluate the good points of this unauthorized download. (Okay, I guess the "good feature" is you can download and install this and have it take over as your default search engine without any effort or action on your part, or even knowing it exists -- if you consider that "good".)

  Cons: If you do not opt-out of the deceptively worded "More Info" option by clicking on the "No, Thanks" button when downloading the unrelated Viewpoint Media Player, your system starts downloading unauthorized "updates" on almost a daily basis. This toolbar installed itself about 30 days later (so technically is is not a Trojan Horse, but Viewpoint conveniently left the door wide open for this to come in). It then altered my system settings so it would insert its own search engine every time I used Google, appearing above the Google results, and setting itself as the default search engine so it appeared whenever I clicked on the Google toolbar button I installed. When I wrote them about this unethical conduct, their position appears to be that allowing them to send "More Info" allows all of this. This company is not to be trusted. Use any of their products with extreme caution -- you are leaving your door open.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Viewpoint Toolbar 3.5.0.54

  "it sure 'nuff done me proud"

  by littlehairlessratbones on September 9, 2006

  Pros: I like this bar's search capability. Sometimes I forget on which web page I saw interesting material and when I wanted to return to it, it was difficult to browse history list and check every document in turn. This program's search capability gives me a long-wanted ability to find the pages I already saw some time ago easily by just several words

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