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View Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab

Posted 2005-11-04 10:28 PM in Musings.

I'm a fan of IEView and FirefoxView, two Firefox extensions that let me Right-click in Firefox and View in IE or Right-click in IE and click View in Firefox. They are very complimentary and have served me well.

Today both MikeG and Lifehacker pointed me to this stunning gem: Internet Explorer in a Firefox tab! I feel dirty already. What kind of world do we live in that creates such mutant children? What price my soul?

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"View Internet Explorer in Mozilla Tab" (Dror's Shrine) [Trackback]
"Embedded Internet Explorer in FireFox tabs" (Xerratus (zûr ä tŭs)) [Trackback]
"Internet Explorer inside a Firefox tab" (PittGeek) [Trackback]

Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:24:42 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

the link to the new extension is broken

Dror Engel

Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:10:20 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Here's the link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419

You can even run Windows / Microsoft Update from an IE Tab.

Jon Galloway

Saturday, November 05, 2005 3:05:09 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Netscape 8.0 does this out of the box. You can even configure it to always use IE or Firefox for specific URLs. It also detects which engine to use based on the content, so if you have a site with ActiveX controls, it will automatically switch to IE.

Wade

Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:59:26 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

This is the reason your blog is at the top of my aggregator's list. Almost fell out of my chair twice on this one -- first when I read it here, second when I installed it and tested it and it worked, without visible defect (other than the Mozilla site looking like crap)