How To Use Accelerators In Browser

By Author: Nick Gray
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Accelerators are an amazing set of features which enhances your web surfing experience to significant heights. If you're an Internet Explorer user, you might be quite well aware of Accelerators if not in detail. After you select a piece of text inside the window of Internet Explorer and you right click on it, you can perform several tasks just with a click. You can search a map with Bing search engine, you can email that with your windows live account, you can blog it, you can search that using Bing or any other search engine, and you can translate that text. All these functions can be performed using Accelerators just with a help of a single click. Isn't that fantastic?

Well here we will mention everything on how to use Accelerators, how to check out the new ones, how to manage them and everything else related to Accelerators. Let's first talk about how to efficiently use them.

Using Accelerators is very easy, while you are surfing Internet via Internet Explorer you come across a text which you don't understand, or you wish more information on that text, all you have to do is select that text by dragging your ...
... mouse over it. By doing so you will have a small, dual arrow shaped image popping up below the selection. On clicking that button you will have all Accelerators at your service. You can use which ever you require. Not just that, if you have any text copied to your clipboard from anywhere and you want more information on it from Internet through Accelerators, all you have to do is open a new tab in the Internet Explorer and there you will see a green heading Use an Accelerator; under that there will be ‘show copied text' there you can directly apply any Accelerator you want and get your job done easily.
Now, to get new Accelerators, you have to follow following easy steps:
Inside the Internet Explorer window, browse to tools menu. There you will have ‘manage add-ons'.
On clicking that, you will have a window in which on the left top pane you will have a menu with Accelerators one among them. This shows active Accelerators in your browser.
To get new ones, at the bottom of that window you will see a link called Find more Accelerators. On clicking there you'll be directed to Internet Explorer gallery where you will be able to choose and install or even replace Accelerators of your choice.
Talking about managing your Accelerators, as mentioned in the section above that under ‘manage add-ons' window, you will have Accelerators in left pane. On clicking that you will get all active Accelerators in your browser. On clicking any of the Accelerators you can edit and change their settings as you want. You can add, remove, disable, set as default or apply any setting you want. It is really an easy task.
If you wish to use Accelerators which are not default then after selecting the text and clicking on that small image you will have a pane called ‘All Accelerators' click on that and you will have a list of all Accelerators which are present in your browser.

So, this is all about using Accelerators to get a rich and enhanced browsing experience. Keep yourself updated with all new accelerators and use them according to your browsing habits. If you're a ‘windows live' user and a regular ‘Internet Explorer' user Accelerators can be of great help to you.