A Focus on Some Functional Details of Internet Explorer 8 to Get You the Max of Search Engines
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Even the tiniest fraction of a second matters to determining the functional efficiency of a browser, the downloading efficiency of a search engine and the loading efficiency of a site. It is a fast-paced and highly functional web browser that can get you the best of search engines to perform your online activities at the drop of a hat. Much like everything in the real-life dog-eat-dog world, web browsers are in a neck-and-neck competition to have a largest share of the global web browser market.
Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s newest browser is the smartest rival to Mozilla’s Firefox. Within a short span of time after its launch in March this year, Internet Explorer 8 has become a favorite with internet surfers across the globe. Yikes! It is set to be the default browser for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft stopped at nothing to enhance the ease and ensure the security of using IE8. After a long googling session, I have assorted some tips on how to make the best use of Internet Explorer 8 in order to make the most of your preferred search engine.
Internet Explorer 8 comes with Accelerators to let you perform several useful functions on the selected text of a web page. Accelerators offer a myriad of facilities including stock quote, map location, definition of a phrase, shortened URL creation and convert currencies. What is more, Accelerators allow you to share the selected text of a webpage on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Accelerator button pops up on selecting a piece of webpage text.
Internet Explorer 8 offers multiple options to speed up the pace of browsing. A simple registry hack can enhance your browsing experience. From regedit in the run box, go to the registry and navigate through Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Internet Settings. Close the reboot and editor after changing the value to 8 to 10.
With Internet Explorer, only two parallel downloads are possible to ensure the effective use of your bandwidth to a certain extent. The download limit increases a bit with a faster connection. Internet Explorer 8 comes with a simple wizard to increase the number of downloads to an extent of 10.
Internet Explorer 8 offers enhanced search facilities. When a user types a search phrase in the search box of IE8, multiple different queries related to the phrase pop up. In other browsers, search suggestions include mostly text suggestions for search terms. IE8 has ensured a pick up in the search process by providing a string of queries, links and suggestions. In this latest browser of Microsoft, a thumbnail image is displayed to highlight a particular visual suggestion.
Web Slice, a new add-on on offer with Internet Explorer 8 helps you subscribe to the frequently updated parts of a webpage like headlines, sports scores or current weather. While using Web Slice to view a page a green icon appears on the toolbar that is next to the Home icon. When you move the mouse over the Slice-ready content of a webpage, the same icon will appear. A click on the icon opens a dialog box asking for your preference to add the content to the Favorite bar of yours.
The Status Bar at the bottom of the IE8 window offers a wealth of information and a wad of handy tricks to help you make the most out of your preferred search engine. A single click on Box 2 can turn on or off the Pop-up Blocker and modify its settings. The Mange Add-ons screen opens with a double click on Box 3. A double click on the Private Report icon in Box 4 opens a Privacy Report with a list of cookies. A single click on Box 6 opens a menu to let you run a safety test on the site that you are visiting.