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11 Firefox Extensions That I Can't Live WithoutRead More. It can emulate a variety of IE versions and automatically launch IE-only websites in IE mode, so you don’t even have to think about it. User Agent Switcher for ChromeHow To Trick Websites By Changing Your User Agent [Chrome]How To Trick Websites By Changing Your User Agent [Chrome]Fool websites into thinking you're using a different web browser or device. Whether you want to trick that ancient IE-only website into letting you in or explore what the web looks like for iPhone users,...Read More is another option for IE-only websites, but it just makes Chrome pretend it’s Internet Explorer – IE Tab doesn’t pretend, it is IE.

Uses

The IE Tab extension embeds the Internet Explorer Web Browser Control included with Windows. If you’re using Mac OS X, Linux, or even Chrome OSUse Chrome OS On Unsupported Computers With Chromium OS LimeUse Chrome OS On Unsupported Computers With Chromium OS LimeLike this idea of Chrome OS, but don't want to fork out money for a ChromeBook? Good news! Chromium Lime brings the Chrome OS experience to a huge number of laptops and netbooks, thanks to...Read More, it won’t work. Remember to keep Internet Explorer updated – IE Tab is only as secure as the version of IE on your system.

IE Tab has a variety of uses:

• Web Development – View web pages in IE 7, IE 8, or IE 9 mode.
• IE-Only Websites – Load IE-only websites within Google Chrome.
• Outlook Web Access & Sharepoint – Use features that only work in IE.
• ActiveX Controls – Run ActiveX Controls, an IE-only technology

Getting Started

After you install IE Tab, you’ll get an IE Tab icon on your toolbar and an IE Tab submenu in your right-click menu. Click the button to load the current page in an embedded IE window.

IE Tab doesn’t integrate perfectly with Chrome – each IE tab frame has its own address bar. To bookmark a page, click the bookmark icon on the IE Tab toolbar. IE Tab will create a bookmark and save it to the “IE Tab” folder on your bookmarks toolbar. When clicked, the bookmark will load the current page in an IE Tab.

You can tell it’s using Internet Explorer because it isn’t rendering MakeUseOf properly. (To be fair, the drop-down menu works properly when IE Tab is set to IE 9Internet Explorer 9 RC Version Available For Download [News]Internet Explorer 9 RC Version Available For Download [News]Read More mode, but it uses IE 7 compatibility mode by default.)

Advanced Options

Open the options page by right-clicking the IE Tab icon on your browser’s toolbar and selecting Options. The options page is divided into four panes.

The IE Options button is a quick way to open the system-wide Internet Options dialogHow To Manage & Secure Your Internet with Windows' Internet OptionsHow To Manage & Secure Your Internet with Windows' Internet OptionsMany computers are owned by a single person, but many others are public or used by a family. It’d be nice to think everyone with access to a computer would follow the rules set up...Read More – IE Tab uses Internet Explorer’s system-wide settings.

The Auto URLs feature allows you to automatically open defined URLs in IE mode. You can define rules using wildcards or regular expressions – or just enter an exact path to a specific web page. When you navigate to any of the pages that match these rules, IE Tab will take over.

The Auto URL Exceptions box can narrow down overly broad Auto URL rules. If there’s a good page that would match one of your Auto URLs rules, you can whitelist it here.

Can I Download Internet Explorer On My Chromebook Laptop

IE Tab emulates IE 7 by default, but you can emulate different IE 8 or IE 9 modes if you have a newer version of Internet Explorer installed. You must restart Google Chrome after changing this setting.

Windows Explorer in Chrome

I’m not sure why you’d want to do this, but you can embed Windows Explorer3 Easy Ways to Improve the Windows 7 Explorer3 Easy Ways to Improve the Windows 7 ExplorerWindows Explorer is the file manager application that handles the Windows desktop and taskbar and lets you access your files. Without its nice graphical interface, controlling your computer would be a lot more complicated. It's...Read More in Chrome with IE Tab. Just type a local file system address, such as C:, into IE Tab’s address bar.

The embedded Windows Explorer works just like the Windows Explorer windows on your system. This feature takes advantage of the close relationship between Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer.

For more great Chrome extensions, check out our list of the best Google Chrome extensions.

Do you still have to use an IE-only website – maybe an internal web app on your intranet? Or have you fully escaped IE’s clutches? Leave a comment and let us know.

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1. No web inspector though so not perfect for web developers who want to step through the code on their site. Actual ie's debugger kept crashing so was hoping this was an alternative.

2. wtf?! What is purpose of this called 'emulator' if I must have installed IE8 or 9 for emulation. It's absolutely unusable and none make sense (???!!!) . rate : -1.

3. I keep getting a [Page Setup] screen pop-up every time I click on a link anywhere. This is very annoying and frustrating. Is there any way to fix this?

4. they need to fix this they just want to make their website popolaur.

5. Great article... it's works for me... thanks

6. Can I use this in my androied phone

7. Even if a add a URL to Auto URL winodw of ie tab option, it does not automatically open into IE if i type the exact same URL again later. Why?

8. I have never heard of an IE only website.. any examples?

   • Anything requiring Active X is IE only.

9. I am using this to see the full-menu that comes with outlook web access. Especially the option for archive-explorer (secondary storage via symantec archive) is not seen in either firefox or chrome. So very helpful there. But I am still looking for something better or just outlook web interface to be as generous with Chrome as it is with IE.

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10. Well i want to open IE web site on my anoride phone ? can i use this Ie tab on this if not then tell me is any devolpment going on this concept thanks

    • Khalid,

      If you are still looking for an answer to this question, try to ask it here: MakeUseOf Answers. Good luck!

    • Khalid, I am looking for this feature on the mobile version of Chrome for either Android or Apple (ios)? I have a specific site I remotely login into that requires me to carry a laptop to use IE explorer (requires IE5.0 or better) and I believe is a Java program... Anyway, have you had any luck?

      • Ok, just answered my own question and Khalid's- from android mobile developer forum:

        Does Chrome for Android support apps and extensions?
        Chrome apps and extensions are currently not supported on Chrome for Android. We have no plans to announce at this time.

11. Hello,

    how can I open an application using IE Tab = Google Chrome Extensions.

    Thank you.

12. Since my work uses sharepoint for our management system I have to use the IE tab because sharepoint does not load well within Google chrome especially if i have scroll over. But this beats actually opening the dreaded Internet Explorer window which crashes every few minuets.

13. This is one way, also works in firefox browser. The other way is to use a multi-core browser. Such as maxthon3 (IE&webkit),Avant browser(IE&gecko&webkit)?When you want to use Internet explorer, just switch the rendering engine to IE mode.

14. liked it!! Now I don't have to open IE to open my University's website!!!