Share any web page you’re reading with your friends and followers at almost any social media site – instantly from the new Google Toolbar. It also automatically shortens the URL using goo.gl … similar to bit.ly, but faster & easier. That’s important for tweets with its limited character count.

We use it to share our blog posts and to post interesting stuff to our Facebook page or to tweet it. I’ve been very pleased with this new feature and encourage you to try it out.

To learn more, Google has a full description and a video demonstration.

“The only working feature on the fake Google Toolbar saves credit card details, according to Christopher Boyd, the security research manager of Foster City, Calif.-based FaceTime Security Labs.” From a story on eWeek.com.

The new Google Toolbar for Firefox was released on schedule yesterday, as anticipated. We’ve been playing with it since then and so far we love it. You can download it here.

According to The Inquirer, the Google toolbar for Firefox will be released later today, “around noonish”.

The Firefox toolbar is reported top have all the functionality of the Internet Explorer version except for popup blocking and browse-by-name functionality, which Firefox already has without the toolbar.

The Firefox toolbar should be available on the Google Downloads page.