Slowing Down: Disabling the Accelerator icon
We’ve had a few folks write to the IEBlog asking ” How can I disable the little blue accelerator icon that appears when text is selected in a HTML page? “ For end users, the answer is straightforward: Click Tools > Internet Options > Advanced , and untick Display Accelerator button on selection inside the “Browsing” section of the list. After doing so, the Accelerator icon will no longer appear in pages when you select text. Policy junkies can set a DWORD named SelectionActivityButtonDisable with value 1 under HKLMSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftInternet ExplorerServices to prevent users from changing the setting. While disabling the icon is straightforward for end-users, there’s no easy way for web developers to do so. This stands in contrast to the “opt-out” mechanisms provided by some other legacy features , which offered web developers the ability to disable certain end-user conveniences as desired. When considering whether we should offer a mechanism for sites to “opt-out” of Accelerators, we were presented with an interesting tradeoff– should websites be allowed to disable features the user wants to use
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Slowing Down: Disabling the Accelerator icon
