Comments on: IE Tab: Jumping Between Firefox and Internet Explorer

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:08 +0000

Which version of IE does IEtab render?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:25:17 +0000

I used this for a while, but started noticing differences between the tabs and the actual full versions of IE. Not sure I trust this anymore.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0000

IETab also has an options page where you can specify that certain web sites always open in an IETab. We have several SharePoint based sites here at work that rely on NTLM credentials pass-through for authentication, and there is no way to do that in Firefox. Now I have them all configured to open automatically in an IE tab.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:06:43 +0000

I've used IETab, but it's limitation is that it will only render for your currently installed version of IE. I've begun using IETester, because many clients will want to keep IE6 compatibility (sad to say). Of course I don't have IE6 installed. IE Tester utilizes a tabbed interface to display pages in IE 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8b. If you just need IE7 compatibility, use IETab; if it extends beyond that, IETester may be the tool for you. (This is an independent opinion, I am in no way associated with the development of IETester).

By: ted

ted — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:10:30 +0000

there have been “switch rendering engine” plugins for firefox available since at least 2005. how is this possibly newsworthy in 2008?

By: Umut

Umut — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:41:06 +0000

In my case, IE Tab was causing Firefox to freeze or get slower most of the times.

When I searched, I saw that the problem was well-known between other users.

I switched to IE View Lite, which is again a context menu item but opens the page in a new IE window rather than a tab.