What freeware addons are available for IE8?

I am considering switching back to Microsoft IE8. Are there any addons available for the browser?|||Internet Explorer add-ons have been introduced by Microsoft in the previous editions of Internet Explorer. Despite the claim they never managed to come close to the popularity and inventiveness of add-ons produced by the Mozilla Firefox community.



Microsoft鈥檚 Internet Explorer 8 introduced a set of new features (accelerators and web slices) that fall into the add-on category as well. The following article contains 8 sleeper Internet Explorer add-ons that can be useful for the majority of Internet Explorer 8 users.



We would also like to point out that this is already the second article about Internet Explorer 8 add-ons and that the first can be accessed at this link. (read: 10 Useful Internet Explorer Add-ons).



First a quick explanation about the different types of add-ons for Internet Explorer:



* Accelerators: Provide functionality directly on the website.

* Web Slices: Real time information that are displayed in Internet Explorer.

* Search Providers: These add-ons add new search engines to the web browser.



1. Job Search (Accelerator)



Will search for a selected job on thousands of websites including newspapers, job boards and company career pages.



internet explorer job search



2. Tweet Internet Explorer



Twitter add-on for Internet Explorer 8 that adds a button to the toolbar which, when pressed, opens a popup window that allows to post status updates to Twitter.



internet explorer twitter



3. Xmarks Synchronization



Synchronize favorites and bookmarks across multiple computers.



xmarks synchronization



4. Post To LiveJournal



Makes it possible to quickly post to LiveJournal using the selected text on another website.



post to livejournal



5. New York Times Latest News



Quick access to the latest news (titles, videos and excerpts) that have been posted on the New York Times website.



new york times updates



6. Find on Last.fm



Will search for the selected text on the popular music community portal Last.fm



lastfm search



7. LastPass Password Manager



LastPass is an online password manager that provides access to interesting features like password generation. It is available for multiple web browsers.



password manager



8. Open It Online Lite



Open documents, spreadsheets and presentations online with this useful Internet Explorer add-on.



openit



Do you know of any add-ons for the Internet Explorer web browser that are worth mentioning? Let us know in the comments.|||They have an add-on page but it really isn't much. Three that I can think of right now are W.O.T.,McAfee Site Adviser,and KeyScrambler which are available at CNET http://www.download.com|||Chrome Frame





http://www.google.com/chromeframe





will allow you to use HTML5 standards through the transitional phase until Microsoft get their finger out and update IE to support some basic things like Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome do ;)





To be honest, you can always keep a couple of browsers installed in case you run into any issues...|||IE 8Add-ons:


http://www.ieaddons.com/en/





IE 8 Accelerators:


http://www.ieaddons.com/en/accelerators/|||Use Accelerators to speed up your work



Accelerators are add-ons for IE8 that let you quickly do a variety of tasks based on text you select on a web page: get a stock quote, look up the definition of a word or phrase, map a location, convert currencies, share selected text on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, create a shortened URL, search for a product at an online shopping site and much more.



Select any piece of text on a web page, and the Accelerator button, that has an arrow pointing to the right-corner on it, will pop up; click that button to see the Accelerator menu. (You can also access Accelerators on the right-click contextual menu.)



Some Accelerators show their results in a pop-up window, while others appear in a new tab.



IE8 comes with several built-in Accelerators, but third-party developers are already starting to produce a wide range of new ones that you can install yourself. Go to Microsoft's Accelerator Gallery to see the available options.

Bookmark info with Web Slices



Another add-on that's new in IE8 is the Web Slice. Web Slices allow you to subscribe to a frequently updated part of a web page, such as sports scores, headlines or current weather - if the site's developers have designated that part of the page as a Web Slice. (Most websites are not Web Slice-enabled at this time.)



When a page you're viewing contains a Web Slice, a green icon appears on the toolbar next to the Home icon, as shown to the right. The same icon appears next to the Slice-ready content on a web page when you mouse over it. Click the icon in either location to see a dialog box asking if you want to add the content to your Favourites bar.



Adding a Web Slice places a button on your Favourites bar that opens a small drop-down box with the updated information from the original page, so you can check the weather, traffic or anything else without interfering with whatever else you're doing in your browser.



Once you've added a Web Slice, updated content is always available from your Favorites bar.



A selection of Web Slices can be found in Microsoft's Add-On Gallery, but Web Slices are easy to create - watch for the green Web Slice icon to start popping up all over the web.



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