View Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab

Published on November 9, 2005 in Firefox

For Firefox users, here is a simple, time saving extension when developing websites or looking at sites that only render well in IE. IE Tab is a new extension that launches IE within a Firefox tab. The extension will put an IE icon on any tab opened in IE and also gives you the ability to add sites to a list of URLs you want to always view in IE. The one quirk I see is that if you put site a site like myweb.com in the ie tab filter list and myweb.com redirects to www.myweb.com the rendering in IE will not carry over when www.myweb.com loads in the tab.

If you want to see the thing work take a look at Mozilla’s home page to see the difference in a tab open in Firefox versus one in IE.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 at 2:48 pm and is filed under Firefox. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

18 Comments

John Denver, December 10, 2005:

Great find. Another awesome extension for Firefox.
Tom, December 26, 2009:

Mozilla seems to come out with cool features everyday. I don’t know why I don’t use it more because IE is no great shakes. I’m building a site aroundamerican singles dating and I think this will be a nice tool for me. Thanks.
Mike, December 27, 2009:

This is a great tool for webmasters. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a site one way on IE that looks completely different on Firefox.
Tim, December 28, 2009:

As a webmaster, this extension will be helpful. Heading off to install it now…
Modern Zen, December 29, 2009:

that’s great, but I develop on the mac – will it work on that?

Checking pages in IE is a pain for me, I have a windows XP install on my Mac but have to reboot everytime I want to check a page. Anyone know of a better way?
Jim, December 29, 2009:

Wow i never knew about this extension ! The amount of times i`ve had to close firefox down to check on IE when designing wed blogs. thanks for this.
Margaret Wagner, January 1, 2010:

This is timely for me – I hope it loads faster in firefox than it does on its own.

Margaret
Nextfit Keychain Trainer, January 11, 2010:

I will stick to Firefox because that is what I
am used to using and I like all of the additional
plugins that I use for it.
Tom M., January 22, 2010:

It seems that people who make their living on the web overwhelmingly prefer to use Firefox. These addons are probably the main reason. Thanks.
Tom M., January 25, 2010:

This tool can save you a lot of trouble. Nothing like hearing from a client that the site looks weird on another browser.
Beth D, January 29, 2010:

I used to wonder why all the veteran internet users I know preferred Firefox to Internet Explorer. Now, I’m finally starting to get it.
shamanism books, February 8, 2010:

You’ve got a great composing style. I discovered your post coming from Yahoo and also thought this rocked. Just how long have you been writing on-line? Not long ago i introduced a new blog myself and its already been quite a entertaining process. I have found some intriguing folks since then. Once more, much appreciated for your report!
yoga dvds, February 8, 2010:

IE with a firefox tab – this is exactly what i wanted. Thanks
phil simms, March 21, 2010:

That is a useful tip, thanks for sharing. I have found a similar problem as you describe but have not found a way around it until now, I am going to give this a try.
car safari, April 5, 2010:

Having to please IE all the time is definitely a real hassle especially when things look great in FireFox.
Pat Danica, April 16, 2010:

I still have IE installed on both my computers, so I can simply open IE to check such sites.
HCG Las Vegas Weight Loss, May 11, 2010:

Very Nice Post! Thanks a lot for posting. Keep on going.
Dried lavender, July 21, 2010:

A very useful extension. Thanks for the tip.