February 21, 2009 by sharky
Under normal circumstances, we wouldn’t go out of our way to promote any toolbar. 99% of them are pure unadulterated junk. However, we’ve found a brand-new toolbar that supports private trackers, without any of the excess baggage. And by the looks of it, the developer obviously put some serious thought into which trackers should be added to the list.
The Universal Toolbar for Torrent Trackers
Universal Toolbar is a toolbar that makes it easy for you to search for torrents from your favourite trackers. There’s no added items on the toolbar - just the search box and a dropdown menu to select from your trackers. A search automatically opens up the chosen tracker - and if you’re already logged in, the search results are immediately displayed.
Security: It only links you to the search page and search for you. Your login information won’t be (cannot be) logged.
Trackers: Presently supports 24 public torrent sites, and 83 private trackers.
For Internet Explorer Only?
Currently, Universal Toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer (on their website), but don’t let that stop you from adding it to Firefox. There’s an "experimental" version of it available here at Mozilla:
— https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10228
NOTE: Since it’s still listed as experimental, you’ll need to login to addons.mozilla.org before being able to download and install it.
Firefox Configuration / Add-Remove Trackers:
After installing (and restarting Firefox), click the Universal Toolbar icon, and select "Options". Here you can configure which trackers will be listed in the dropdown for the search.
Check off each of your trackers, and click the large blue checkmark on the right to save the configuration (it’s saved as a ‘cookie’ on your PC).
Voilà! Much easier than adding multiple search engines one by one to your browser.
Archived by FSFmirror
