Would you like to see a preview of the websites behind regular, text only, and shortened URLs?

Note: online window restart not required.

For the first example we used a regularly formatted link.

Preview and Verify URLs in Internet Explorer 8

Hovering your mouse will open a preview thumbnail of the page with the URL shown directly beneath it.

Clicking on the listing opens the page as normal in a new tab.

The second example was a text only URL.

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Highlight the URL and follow the same menu procedure for a regular links to see the preview.

Clicking on the listing will launch the text URL in a new tab as shown above.

The accelerator also works well with shortened URLs.

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Right press the URL and go to the Preview and Launch accelerator listing.

punch the shortened URL in the preview window to expand it and see a preview.

Notice that the full URL behind the shortened URL is now displayed with the preview.

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Clicking on the accelerator listing works the same as for the other types of links.

You may occasionally see this message for a link preview.

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