Tag Archives: IE9

Configuring Google to IE9

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Honestly this is not my type of a blog post, not C# or any new technology. But last 2 weeks I met around 4 people who complained that IE is great, but we cannot get the Google search in the address bar, thus they use other browsers.

I’m not into this browser war. But when someone says the above as a reason that they can’t use IE, as MS passionate I have to explain them how to do that. So that’s what this post is all bout.

How to configure the Google search in IE 9 address bar. (Click on the images to view in full size)

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Open IE and click the address bar drop down (circled in yellow in right hand top corner) and in the drop down click the Add button.

This will open up the IE Gallery and in the search tab, search for the Google and add it. It is simple as that. When adding it will ask that do you want to make the new search provider as the default one. Tick that and also tick the suggestions option to get search suggestions.

Simple as that. But it is very unfortunate that even people in the technical field who deal with browsers in all time are not aware of this.

Pin websites to Task bar – IE9

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IE9 offers a great feature that you can pin the websites in the task bar and navigate them very conveniently. The cool feature is once you pinned a website to the task bar, you can access the website like an application. It offers jump list features and direct access to those features. And in the task bar the website icon is displayed; this makes it very cool to have that feature.

If you want to pin a website in your task bar simply drag and drop the site tab to your task bar or press Alt + T and then M and press Add in the dialog box.

To make your websites to be compatible with this feature we have to develop our site in a way that it can be added to the task bar. This MSDN article describes about making the websites in such a way.

But I still have doubts on this feature whether plenty of people will use this or not. Though the indirect Windows marketing strategy is there, still there are some benefits on this method. But based on some HCI principles I really doubt on this feature.