Verdict
Ingenious way of viewing Internet Explorer web content within the Firefox web browser
Review Rating:
Type: Free for personal use only
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Manufacturer: PC Man
Size: 212Kb
Number of Downloads: 6655
Price: $ Free
Most people do not realise that Internet Explorer is embedded within the Windows operating system as the web core. This web core is used by other applications (basically any apps that use HTML, such as iTunes) to display web content. It’s also used for HTML-based help.
However, this also means that this same web core (the Internet Explorer web engine) could be used….within another web browser. Indeed they do, Maxthon, Avant and others are an extensive wrapper around the existing IE core. But, what happens if someone went one step further and enabled you to view IE content within Firefox. This would be ideal for web developers who wanted to see how their web page appears within Firefox and Internet Explorer, without having to use Internet Explorer. If you’re a regular web user, you might stumble across a web page that appears irregular within Firefox and you need Internet Explorer to view the page correctly.
IE Tab is an extension for Firefox that enables you to view Internet Explorer content within Firefox, in its own tab.
Note that this will only work with the Windows version of Firefox.
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Can not find this version anywhere!!
Can you first double check the accuracy of your information in the future before making it public? There is no such extension ..as yet!! the latest version is 1.3.3 and is NOT compatible with Firefox 3!! Check your facts first!
vnunet.com: please calm down! Firstly we're right (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419?id=1419). Secondly, this is compatible with Firefox 3, as stated by the developer. Check your facts first, please.
Posted by Rachid, 26 Jun 2008
Mac OSX
Do you know if there is a IEtab available that is combatible with OSX yet? I have tried prefbar but it still doesn't work so must need IE to operate.
vnunet.com comment: it's impossible. Internet Explorer isn't part of OS X and - if you read the above review - IE Tab simply uses the Internet Explorer code that is supplied with Windows.
Posted by Alex, 23 Aug 2008