I happened to try out the yahoo toolbar a couple of days ago and I found it really annoying. Everytime you load internet explorer the Yahoo toolbar says "Contacting Yahoo..." and it takes about 10 seconds to load the toolbar. It grabs updated info every time you load it.
Obviously there are advantages to this as it allows you to keep the toolbar up to date but my personal opinion is that constant requests to a remote site can be problematic. Not only does it slow down the toolbar loading, but what if your webserver goes down or something like that...the toolbar will be inacessible.
I guess one way to bypass that is to download a configuration file and load the toolbar options from that file. At least that means if the website isn't accessible the toolbar can load still.
Obviously there are advantages to this as it allows you to keep the toolbar up to date but my personal opinion is that constant requests to a remote site can be problematic. Not only does it slow down the toolbar loading, but what if your webserver goes down or something like that...the toolbar will be inacessible.
I guess one way to bypass that is to download a configuration file and load the toolbar options from that file. At least that means if the website isn't accessible the toolbar can load still.
