The Delicious Blog announced the release of a new beta version of the del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Internet Explorer. The new version helps the IE version catch up with the Firefox version, which was released on April 30th.

The new features include:

• Extremely high performance implementation allows for near instantaneous searching with very large accounts (over 10K bookmarks)
• Full del.icio.us sidebar and toolbar implementation with bookmark sync and typedown search
• Toolbar indicators for new network activity and links for you
• Works on IE6, IE7, and IE8 beta on both XP and Vista

For help using the extension on Firefox, use this Yahoo Group, and for help with the IE version, use this Yahoo Group.

Related Topics: Toolbars & Add-Ons | Yahoo: Delicious

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