Firefox IE Tab

ioscorpio

Just got a new laptop, so putting all the usual stuff on it, I've just put on the IE Tab on the Firefox browser, but it's not working, when I click it, it stays on Firefox???

Chippy_Minton

Have you shutdown and restarted FF?

yeslek

why would you want to run IE through firefox? surely thats a bit silly

ktuludays

i agree, why bother with IE. imo it is sh15.

firefox is far better and can be customised to suit your needs much easier

Say no to Microsoft!!!!!!

monopolising bar stewards

ABH_3

ktuludays wrote:

i agree, why bother with IE. imo it is sh15.

firefox is far better and can be customised to suit your needs much easier

Say no to Microsoft!!!!!!

monopolising bar stewards

Err, 7 = "T" ie: 5h17.

Also, some banks for instance don't like FF, neither do some applications that were specifically created for Internet Explorer ie: Text to Speech for instance. Additionally, FF sometimes, dare I say it forgets to render pages successfully. Not only that, some sites don't work with FF but still do with IE.

What you seem to be forgetting is that computers can be tailored to suit individual needs. True FF is more secure than IE, but that doesn't alter the fact that the OP has expressed a need for one particular aspect of their computing experience to be as they would like it. Not as you or anyone else would like it.

wolfman

yeslek wrote:

why would you want to run IE through firefox? surely thats a bit silly

- For viewing sites that don't support Firefox.
- Developing a site.

IE isn't as bad as the press it gets. A lot of the security issues can be locked down quite easily. It's lighter and faster than Firefox in quite a few aspects, and has a decent rendering engine.

Personally though I use Opera because it's light and fast and I find very much complete. I use Firefox for developing as it's very extensible thanks to the array of extensions available.

If IE Tab fails, you could try IE View.

MyBigToe_2

IE is fine, the main security issue on PCs is the User.. and if thats a problem, i doubt they would use FF

yeslek

wolfman wrote:

- For viewing sites that don't support Firefox.
- Developing a site.

IE isn't as bad as the press it gets. A lot of the security issues can be locked down quite easily. It's lighter and faster than Firefox in quite a few aspects, and has a decent rendering engine.

Personally though I use Opera because it's light and fast and I find very much complete. I use Firefox for developing as it's very extensible thanks to the array of extensions available.

If IE Tab fails, you could try IE View.

fair do's

it just seems a little silly wanting something that does the same job to run in another (if that makes sense)

ioscorpio

Thanks ABH and wolfman, I only use IE on the rare occasion a site won't work in Firefox.

ashby

E.G. Try ordering your groceries in Firefox, from Tesco.

I've added the IE tab just a few days ago, at first I didn't realise it was swopping the site to IE as the toolbars etc all stay the same you just get a IE logo in the address bar next to the site address. If that's not your prob I'd uninstall and reinstall it, it's working OK for me.
ps right clicking the tab should bring a list that allows you to permanently select IE rendering for a particular site - like Tesco.

ioscorpio

I've changed to IE View and it works fine