The world’s most popular Web browser, Internet Explorer is poised to make a stunning comeback after the recent episodes of market abdication to open source browsers. Featuring a Microsoft innovation called Accelerators, the browser’s latest avatar Internet Explorer 8 is being billed as living proof of Microsoft’s resolve to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of the social networking realm.
Accelerators are purported to make the browsing experience faster by allowing instant data interchange between different browser windows. So, instead of copying and pasting some text to another window, all you have to do is highlight the text and right-click on the appropriate popup.
This may seem insignificant at first, but it is above all an indicator of how seriously Microsoft takes Web interoperability and social networking. In fact, the Digg and Facebook Accelerators are being actively advertised by Microsoft across the Web.
Accelerators also enable communication between websites. For example, using the Digg Accelerator (pictured above) you can submit a page you like to Digg. If you are already logged in to Digg, you will be led straight to the submit screen. Otherwise, it will take you to the register page. This saves time as you can simply use your right click button instead of going to the Digg website directly.
Accelerators can be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft site http://www.ieaddons.com
