Tired of cutting and pasting information from one website to another for everyday tasks? Now there's a better way. Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday—from any page you visit. Now you can simply select some text and then click on the blue Accelerators icon. For example, you may be interested in the location of a business featured on a webpage. In the past, you would need to copy the address from the webpage, navigate to another the webpage for a mapping service, and paste in the address. With the "Map with Live Maps" Accelerator in Internet Explorer 8, you can get an in-place view of a map displayed directly on the page.
Common accelerator showing driving directions
The above was just one example of the many things you can do with Accelerators. Internet Explorer 8 includes a number of useful Accelerators that includes search, mapping, word definitions, translation, blogging, and e-mail. You have full control over which Accelerators are enabled and which service providers are associated with an Accelerator, so you can easily get definitions from one site, view maps from a second site, and search with a third.
What's more, we've partnered with a number of companies like eBay, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook, and more to create their own Accelerators that help you reach beyond the page, and the list is growing.
You can discover other useful Accelerators by selecting the More Accelerators option on the right-click menu. You can easily delete, disable, or enable Accelerators by clicking on Manage Add-ons from the Tools button on the upper right-hand corner of your browser window.
The "more accelerators" option menu
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