Theirs been a big mistake, this person couldn't be referring to Google, as Google wouldn't do this. Its obvious he's referring to what the Chinese have been doing to Google or something close to it.:)

Krevin: The key feature is called"Disable Google Toolbar only for this window". Once a user closes and reopens his browser, the tracking is *supposed* to turn back on. So, what happens within the single, current browsing session is the whole point. It's no answer to say the user should restart his browser to enjoy a disabling feature that's supposed to affect the current browser window; in that nonsensical interpretation, the user would never get a chance to actually use the browser in tracking-free mode.

More Spyware... Uninstall it if you want a free ride on the web!!

If you read the dude's thing carefully, you'll see that it only keeps going and going once you disable the tool bar, for that particular browsing session. When you restart your browser, and every time after, it will not call home. So I don't see this as a big deal whatsoever. Restarting a browser 1 time is not that big of a deal.

Now do I have to worry about Google Chrome too?

One other 'feature' of the Google Toolbar (in Firefox), is that it sets Firefox's preferences to Always Allow google.com cookies, even if you instruct Firefox to remove all cookies at the end of the session. This becomes a problem when you uninstall the Google Toolbar, and Google secretly tracks you for the next 18 months.

I am bemused when I see people still using this thing. Every browser now has a search box (and usually a much more flexible one) which it duplicates in a wasteful manner. The only vaguely useful feature I know some people like is the auto-completion stuff, and decent browsers are tending towards offering that built-in also. Or do people get a kick out of an already slow browser taking even longer to load?

Same as MS sending its Windows Search results back to MS, a few years ago:
ANY machine, ANYwhere that has legal requirement to not forward the private info stored in it to 3rd party entities breaks the law with this arrangement, courtesy of MS before, and Google now.

Glad to know our freedom/lives are being jeapordised by these incorporated gangs, isn't it?

( yes people die in prison, hence the lives bit )

Un-install it instead of disabling it!.

if the google toolbar still sent your data after being uninstalled then i would think that there is something evil.
when something is disabled and still works then it is a programming oversight.

i.e. treat google toolbar like a person...removeing the person from your house is the only way you know a perrson won't report on you.

cause disabling the person(google) is like the person installed a bug in your house to spite you!.