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From content in SUMO's forum we know that the Babylon toolbar is a piece of  software that users are trying to remove, and this survey indicates that is because a high percentage installed it unintentionally and then found their search hijacked.
From content in SUMO's forum we know that the Babylon toolbar is a piece of  software that users are trying to remove, and this survey indicates that is because a high percentage installed it unintentionally and then found their search hijacked.


In addition, the uninstallation process is not obvious as shown by all the threads that are generated around the topic: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search?e=es&q=babylon. From the crash reports we also have some indications about how this type of toolbar impacts performance negatively. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688895 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715757
In addition, the uninstallation process is not obvious as shown by all the threads that are generated around the topic[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search?e=es&q=babylon]. From the crash reports we also have some indications about how this type of toolbar impacts performance negatively. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688895 Bug 688895] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715757 Bug 715757].
Those users who do intend to install the Babylon toolbar mainly do so for the  translation feature.  This matches data  gathered  from users who   migrate to Chrome because they want the Translation features provided by  the  Google Toolbar. See http://bit.ly/moz-critical  for the complete research report contracted by Patrick Finch and David Tenser.
Those users who do intend to install the Babylon toolbar mainly do so for the  translation feature.  This matches data  gathered  from users who migrate to Chrome because they want the Translation features provided by  the  Google Toolbar. See http://bit.ly/moz-critical  for the complete research report contracted by Patrick Finch and David Tenser.


===Survey Details===
===Survey Details===
Confirmed users
365

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