What is that blue arrow in Internet Explorer 8?

by Adrienne McGee on August 25th, 2010

Using Accelerators in IE8.

For those of you that use Internet Explorer 8, you might have noticed the appearance of a blue arrow icon occasionally in web pages you visit. If you select any text in a web page, the blue arrow icon will appear.

This is a new feature in IE8. If you select any text in a web page, the blue arrow will appear, if you click on this arrow, you will be given a list of what are called "Accelerators". An example of an Accelerator would be to search the selected text on your favorite search engine, which saves you the trouble of copying the selected text, go to your search engine and paste in the text.

A variety of other Accelerators are available and are customizable. If you click the blue arrow icon you will see a menu item call All Accelerators, which will then let you go to options to either find more Accelerators or manage the ones you already use.

This feature is particularly useful for those who like to do lots of research and shopping on the Web. Enjoy!

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