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The new toolbar would work similarly to toolbars created by StumbleUpon and TinyURL.

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Computing | by Emily Price | Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:25AM | 0 comments

Digg is reportedly looking to make its way onto your web browser through a new Digg-branded toolbar. The toolbar has been under Digg's super-secret development, but like most things here on the interwebs has finally leaked out to the public by a beta tester.

According to the tester, the new toolbar will allow you to instantly "Digg" or "Bury" a page you're looking at as well as show you how many Diggs the page might have already received. The toolbar has a link to show you pages related to the one you're looking at, and has a "Random" button for when you're feeling adventurous and want to check out something new, much like to StumpleUpon.

If you stumble upon something you want to share with the masses Digg has added functionality for sharing links via Twitter, Facebook, and email with all shared links coming up as http://digg.com plus a six character code that's similar to a TinyURL, rather than the actual original URL.

The toolbar itself isn't really a "toolbar" but is instead an i-frame around the original webpage, so if you get tired of looking at Digg on your web browser you can simply click an X to get rid of it and view the page in its original form. By running all the pages through Digg's servers Digg will be able to track how many people view a particular page, where they went next, and other analytics they don't currently recieve.

For those of us that use Digg all the time the Digg toolbar is going to certainly make the entire process much quicker. Can you think of anything you'd like to see come to the toolbar before it becomes available to the public?

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