Here’s a cool extension for Firefox: IE Tab
There are a few web pages that don’t work right in Firefox, and you have to open them in Internet Explorer (IE). IETab will open them in IE embedded in a tab in Firefox. Furthermore, you can tell it once when a site needs to use IE, and in the future it will always open that site in an IE Tab. The result is seamless browsing where you can do everything in Firefox, but IE will automatically be used when you need it, though you won’t even have to know it.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Richard // Mar 3, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Wow! Two postings in two days.
2 Donna // Mar 3, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Cool! I wonder if it will work at work, on the internal sites that demand I use I.E. I’ll have to try it!
3 Richard // Mar 4, 2006 at 8:17 am
I installed it and have been playing around with it a little. It works for some pages, but still does not render pages like they would be in stand alone IE. I keep IE on my system so I can install all the ugly plugins like Flash for those few times I want to see what the page really looks like. I have installed the plugin IEView which allows me to right click on a page and have it open directly into the real IE. Both seem to work together OK, but for the few times I want to view something in IE I thing I will use IEView to be sure I get around all the Adblock, etc. settings I have in Firefox. Maybe if I have a page that is just not lining up properly the IE Tab would be useful.
4 Don // Mar 4, 2006 at 1:24 pm
So I’m guessing it won’t work very well on my computer. At least until Microsoft comes out with a Linux version of IE. 😉
5 Richard // Mar 4, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Speaking of new stuff, Daryl you may want to let everyone know there is a new version of GAIM out. It is still beta but seems to work fine as long as you don’t select to use emoticons. There seems to be a problem with that. Every letter w was replaced by an emoticon when I had them turned on.
The best thing about this version is that it contains an optional spell checker. Maybe it always has been an option but I don’t remember seeing it before. Anyway, I have it now. I know IM is usually a lot of short hand, but I still like to look relatively intelligent. It seems to work very well.
6 Daryl // Mar 5, 2006 at 10:23 am
Richard,
The latest released version I see is 1.5.0, and it has been out since August.
I saw beta versions of 2.0 — is that what you are using?
7 Daryl // Mar 5, 2006 at 10:25 am
Don,
But if you can’t run IE, how do you visit the Windows Update site to get the latest fixes and patches for all the security holes in Windows?….
Oh wait a minute…
8 Daryl // Mar 5, 2006 at 11:04 am
Richard,
Regarding Flash — I have installed the extension “FlashBlock” on Firefox. It completely blocks all Flash, but replaces it with a button you can press if you want to view it.
Works very well for me by blocking most Flash which is just irritating advertisements, but easily allowing me to view it if it is really something I want to see.
9 Richard // Mar 5, 2006 at 11:37 am
Daryl,
I installed the beta2 version of GAIM 2.
The flashlock extension sounds like it might work OK, except it is just one more extension to worry about when Firefox upgrade time comes around. I am still running the older version of Firefox on my company laptop because the Proxy manager extension I have been using (and love) was not available for the new release. I think it might be by now, but it was not for several weeks after the current release came out.
I find that opening in IE for things like flash or other times I don’t want any restrictions on pop ups or ads works pretty well. There are not that many time I need it and when I do it reminds me why I don’t use IE anymore.