I finally tried out Google Desktop, including Google Sidebar, on my laptop running Vista. I really love it, especially the fact that I can tell it to Big Brother me and tailor content based on my Web surfing (and program use, possibly). The one pain I found is that, even though FireFox is my default browser, it always launches links in IE. Apparently, it's a known issue and Google's planning to fix it in the next release. http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop_How-do-I/browse_thread/thread/96ff7be4fa9f38e6/b4ff327f534b047e
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