Browser toolbars are a nice way to put your services, websites, and brand right in front of people as they surf the web.  Last month we told you about a cool service from Conduit that lets you create custom toolbars for your users to download and install into their web browsers.  In fact, our little write-up found its way to Conduit's website.

Last night Google released a new version of its toolbar for Firefox users.  The update, still in beta status, brings the same functionality found in the Internet Explorer version of the Google Toolbar to Firefox users.  Some of those features include:

• Access bookmarks from any computer
• Add custom buttons to the toolbar
• Share webpages via Blogger, Gmail, or SMS
• Feed subscription
• Search suggestions
• Spell-checker for web forms
• Translation
• Search term highlighter
• Form autofill

In addition, a new feature unique to the Firefox version of the toolbar lets you open documents and files online in Google Docs & Spreadsheets with a single click.  No more having to download files and upload them to Docs & Spreadsheets to view them.

The toolbar is available for Firefox 1.5 or higher and works with Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, and Linux.  An Internet Explorer version is also available but lacks the new Docs & Spreadsheet feature.