Browse Without Navigating Using Accelerators

Accelerators are new to Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) which is designed to speed up your web browsing experience by providing fast access to functions that normally take longer to reach through copying and pasting into other sites such as opening a street address in a mapping website or looking up the dictionary definition for a word.

 

Use an Accelerator

  • Open Internet Explorer

  • Go to the website that contains the text that you want to use with an Accelerator, and select the text by highlighting the text

  • Click the Accelerator button  to display a list of default Accelerators

  • Move the mouse over each Accelerator to see a preview of the information or content or click on it to open in a new tab

 

Get new Accelerators

  • Open Internet Explorer

  • Click Tools button and click Manage Add-ons

  • In Manage Add-ons, under Add-on Types, click Accelerators to display a list of your current Accelerators. At the bottom of the screen, click Find More Accelerators link

  • On the Internet Explorer Gallery webpage, click the Accelerator you want to install, and then click Install Accelerator.


  • In the Add Accelerator dialog box, do one of the following:

    • If you're adding a new Accelerator, click Add. When you add an Accelerator, you can also select Make this my default provider for this Accelerator check box.

    • If you're replacing an existing Accelerator, click Replace.

    • If you're not sure you trust the website listed in the From field, click Cancel.

 

Manage Accelerators

  • Open Internet Explorer

  • Click the Tools button, and then click Manage Add-ons.

  • In Manage Add-ons, under Add-on Types, click Accelerators to display a list of your current Accelerators.

  • Click an Accelerator in the list and do one or more of the following:

    • To change the status of an Accelerator, click the Enable, Disable, Set as default, or Remove as default buttons. Note that the buttons might change based on the current status of the Accelerator.

    • You can view the home page for the Accelerator service, or the site it was installed from.

    • To change the category of an Accelerator, click change next to the Category field in the status area at the bottom of Manage Add-ons.

    • To find and add more Accelerators, click Find More Accelerators at the bottom of Manage Add-ons.

    • To remove an Accelerator, click the Remove button.

  • When you're done, click Close