Introducing the acceleration feature of Internet Explorer 8

TipsMake.com - Internet Explorer 8 (Accelerators) acceleration feature can save you a lot of time working on the Web every day. The following article will introduce you to this useful feature, while helping you make the most of it.

After about five months of using Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop, I now feel no more anxious about the desktop that installed Windows Vista Ultimate, even though it was my powerful assistant before. My desktop is quite a powerful system, I have no big problems with Vista. Sometimes there are small problems here and there, but in general there is nothing too troublesome. However, ever since I became acquainted with Windows 7, I love the operating system more and more.

One of the things I like about Windows 7 is Internet Explorer 8 and its Accelerators acceleration feature. Although Internet Explorer 8 has been around for a long time, I didn't really care about it at first. One day, I decided to install Internet Explorer 8 on my Vista system. As a result, I was very happy that I decided to use Internet Explorer 8, because I had never realized that Accelerator could be so useful until I started using it often. than.

In this article, I will introduce you to Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators and help you make the most of it.

What is Accelerators?

As its name suggests, Accelerators are a feature that helps you speed up your work on the Web thanks to the ability to interact quickly with things you need to search on the Web every day. You just need to highlight the words you care about and click on the Accelerators icon.

For example, the default Accelerator will allow you to quickly send a term to a search engine or a translation page, send a text to your blog or via e-mail, or send the address to the route finder. .

Although the preconfigured Accelerators come from Microsoft, that's not all. There are hundreds of third-party Accelerators to choose from.

Let's first see how to make the most of the preconfigured Accelerators. After that, we will discuss the addition and management of Accelerator.

Use preconfigured Accelerator

The best way to explain the details of Accelerators is to try it out. Suppose you are looking for a new job and you are going through a place that seems quite popular in the city you are not familiar with. To know where this is, you first need to highlight the city name. Soon you will see the Accelerators icon. When clicking on the icon, the Accelerator list will appear. Point to the Map with Live Search line and a small map will pop out like Figure A. If you want to get more detailed information, click on the small map and the big map will appear on the new tab.

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Figure A - Accelerator named Map with Live Search will immediately show you the map of the city you are interested in, the actual map provided by Bing.

In the next example, suppose you're reading about the famous Beatles band and want to learn more about this band. Just highlight The Beatles , click the Accelerators icon, and then select Search with Live Search as shown in Figure B. A new tab will appear and display search results from Bing.

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Figure B - You can search everything instantly with Accelerator named Search with Live Search.

As you can see, this Accelerator saves you many steps. No need to copy the search phrase, open a new tab, access the search engine, paste the phrase and click the Search button.

Add Accelerator

As I mentioned above, there are hundreds of third-party Accelerators to choose from, and you can use them to replace preconfigured Accelerators. To access the Accelerator list, open the All Accelerators submenu and select Find More Accelerators like Figure C.

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Figure C - You will find the Find More Accelerators line in the All Accelerators submenu.

After selecting Find More Accelerators, a new tab will open and Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery page: Accelerators will appear as shown in Figure D. Next you can optionally select the Accelerator you want to use and install it only Simply click on the Add to Internet Explorer button.

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Figure D - You can find hundreds of third-party Accelerators on Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery: Accelerators.

Accelerator configuration

If you select Manage Accelerators from the All Accelerators submenu , you will see the Manage Add-ons dialog box with Accelerators Add-on Type selected as shown in Figure E. Here, you can remove Accelerators, disable Accelerator and Set the default Accelerator for each item.

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Figure E - From the Manage Add-ons dialog box, you can customize the selected Accelerator.

Accelerator only for documents

Although most Accelerators are designed to work with selected text or phrases, there are a number of Accelerators designed to work exclusively with the entire Web site or document. So if you added an Accelerator to Internet Explorer 8 without seeing it in the Accelerator list when highlighting a phrase, try right-clicking on the Web page. If the Accelerator is designed to work with the Web site, you will find it in that menu.