Comments on: Exclusive: eBay Launches Browser Highlighter to Compare Pricing, Make Skype Calls

By: Horst Schlämmer Jr.

Horst Schlämmer Jr. — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:06:10 +0000

I started investigating what was locking up my browser recently. I went to the add on section and disabled one at a time. If it wasn’t it, I enabled it again.

I then came to Browser Highlighter. When that was disabled, Firefox worked nice again.

I didn’t recall installing Browser Highlighter. Is this another internet trick? Reminds me of Microsoft was pulling a little while ago with it’s NET software.

I didn’t realize eBay owned this until I sent in a complaint. The confirming e-mail was from eBay. Nothing wrong with that really, but it is just another corporate invasion of my computer. If it isn’t the government, it is the corporations. What is the little guy to do?

By: Larry W Virden

Larry W Virden — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:14:47 +0000

How can I stop this plug in from ever being installed? Everytime I install firefox, this plugin keeps getting reinstalled, resulting in firefox being broken and having to be uninstalled.
I’m sick of this!

By: sandy harrington

sandy harrington — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:54:22 +0000

DITTO THE LAST COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wHAT IS THE MEANING SENDING THIS OUT TO DISRUPT OUR SYSTEMS! HOW DO I GET RID OF IT???

By: robert hiemstra

robert hiemstra — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:08:22 +0000

the pop-up that the Highlghter Browser people have sent out takes over most of my computer, intruding itself as a frozen block of immobility that i must navigate around. I can’t even download it to see if that will relax the grip.
incompetence is obviously revealing itself.
who would want something from the makers of this pop-up?
only victims trying to free themselves.

By: eBay Launches Browser Highlighter to Compare Pricing, Make Skype Calls | Tech News - Business News And Social Networking

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:44:18 +0000

[...] Because it’s only in beta, eBay’s “Compare on eBay” tool won’t work on any site you visit. Instead, it will only work on Google Search, Google Shopping, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Shopping, Amazon Search Results, Amazon Product Pages and Nextag. If the company sees strong use of the tool on those sites, it will expand its compatibility to other services. More [...]

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By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:32:50 +0000

There’s hope for StumbleUpon being owned by eBay. If they were about to sell it, I doubt they would integrate it into the plug-in (or annouce plans to anyway).

Also, I wonder why they couldn’t just make the Firefox version cross platform compatible to begin with. After all, almost all Firefox extensions work on every platform Firefox has been ported to (more than you’d think).

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De Koopman » Blog Archive » Nieuws in het kort, 1 oktober 2008 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:19:08 +0000

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By: eBay launches browser-based price comparison tool

eBay launches browser-based price comparison tool — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:59:58 +0000

[...] available for Windows only. eBay plans to release a Mac version that works with Safari soon. [via TechCrunch]Read | Permalink | Email [...]

By: ironyjk's me2DAY

ironyjk's me2DAY — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:23:36 +0000

iron의 생각…

eBay Browser Highlighter…

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eBay launches browser-based price comparison tool — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:33:50 +0000

[...] available for Windows only. eBay plans to release a Mac version that works with Safari soon. [via TechCrunch] [...]

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By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:24:16 +0000

I love this thing. One less click when shopping online. Woohoo!

By: Extensión de eBay para Firefox e Internet Explorer | Tecnología Diaria

Extensión de eBay para Firefox e Internet Explorer | Tecnología Diaria — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:08:23 +0000

[...] y listo para descargar. El sitio de subastas más grande (aún) en toda la Internet, eBay, acaba de lanzar una extensión para Firefox e Internet Explorer llamada Browser Highlighter que permitirá a los [...]

By: Annoy

Annoy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:56:48 +0000

Your comment to his comment is more annoying. Shut your hating. I hate hater more than the spammer.

By: Sri

Sri — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:26:04 +0000

I always buy from eBay after comparing prises with Amazon….u get it for cheap…

By: Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace

Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:47:33 +0000

And yet this won’t make the sellers content. Ebay needs to embrace some of their old policy in my opinion. Check out their seller forums sometime. Page after page of complaints.

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:44:46 +0000

Two points:

1. There’s a typo in your download link. It should be http://www.brow...ighlighter.com/

2. Skype has offered a browser extension for a while now that lets you click any phone number on a web page to initiate a Skype call. This isn’t a new thing, it just looks like eBay has added the same functionality to this tool.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:35:27 +0000

Or he doesn’t use windows (or just hates the nag screens, like me).

By: IJ

IJ — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:09:21 +0000

Is it just me or are the shopping notes guys starting to annoy everyone?? plugging your product in the comments of blogs is lame, spend some time making it better and your users will market it for you…

By: insic

insic — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:36 +0000

wow nice integration for this tools.

By: Jordans

Jordans — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:03:40 +0000

Pretty cool new tool.

By: ShoppingNotes.com

ShoppingNotes.com — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:30:44 +0000

Oops, the download link doesn’t work for me, either.

Looks like we ShoppingNotes.com should go talk to eBay. We’ve got the technology that can extract the product image and price out of any product page from any shopping sites, not just a limited set of sites. This would make a lot of sense.

By: Farhan Ahmad

Farhan Ahmad — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:49:59 +0000

I think they are changing their mind about releasing this yet , the download link is dead…

http://pages.br...lighter.com/%3C!–/*ENTER%20EXECUTABLE%20FILE%20LINK%20HERE*/–%3E

By: jo

jo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:25:55 +0000

Don has probably never heard of fireshot to make screenshots.