IE Tab

December 14th, 2005

IE tab is a Firefox extension that allows you to run Internet Explorer within a tab in Firefox. It uses the embedded IE system, so it will use whatever version of IE that you have installed on your machine. All you need to do is right click on a tab or link etc, and click “view this page in IE”. IE is then loaded up within that tab and you can continue browsing in IE as long as you need. Then simply close the tab and you are back to normal Firefox.

The beauty of this is it makes testing web pages that bit simpler - no running IE, no extra windows (I like my tabs). Since I only ever resort to using IE to check webdesign work or if a site (windows update springs to mind) refuses to work in Firefox. All the normal firefox buttons work so the UI is the same.

Download it here

A simpler alternative to this is the older View In IE extension, which simply adds a shortcut to the context menu which launches IE witg the page you are currently on.

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