How to use internet explorer in Mac air (Mavericks OS)

Sorry, but IE does not run on Macs. It's only for Windows. The only way to run IE on a Mac is to first run Windows on a Mac. The standard browser for OS X is Safari. The file manager is called the Finder.

You cannot unless you run Windoze on the Mac.

Barry

No version of Internet Explorer will run in Mavericks natively. You need to run the Mac OS X version(which hasn't been updated in a long time and is insecure) through Mac OS X Server 10.6 in emulation, or run the Windows one inside Windows or a program such as CrossOver Mac.

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I'm not sure about Mavericks, but there was an option in safari preferences under advanced, for a check box saying "Show Develop menu in menu bar". Check that, then click Develop at the top of your screen, go under User Agent, and there should be an option for Internet explorer 7.0 8.0 & 9.0. I hoped that helped.

That merely changes the user agent of Safari. It does not make Safari into or function like IE. It makes other servers think you are using IE.

If you want to run Internet Explorer then you are going to have to install Windows first.

Allan

No, there isn't. All the possible ways of running Internet Explorer on a computer using Mavericks have already been described.

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What do you need IE for?

yeswanthfrombangalore wrote:

because we can use some websites fully only with IE.

Then it is likely that those sites use Windows Proprietary extensions like ActiveX. Even if you could find a version of IE for the Mac, those sites would still not work. Some very incompetent web designers can create sites that require Windows proprietary tools to access all of there features. You would have to be running Windows to access those things.

I understand why you want to use IE, but I think you should reconsider:

Any web site that "requires" IE isn't standards-compliant, and it probably means that the company hired incompetent web designers. (it doesn't take much to design web pages without IE non-standard methods - and it probably requires people that have experience with more than one Windows-only design tool)

Do you really want to do business with companies that are that "cheap?"

(Oh - Barney-15E said it first!)

yeswanthfrombangalore wrote:

because we can use some websites fully only with IE.

OK, so I'm going to make a few assumptions... Please correct any of these assumptions that are wrong here, of course.

You're working inside a moderate or large entity, and you're probably dealing with internal-facing or corporate-IT-based software or purpose-built internal software, and that software is compatible with older versions of Microsoft Windows and older versions of Internet Explorer, and that software probably also only works with newer versions of Internet Explorer when those versions are switched into IE6 compatibility mode.

In other words, you need compatibility with the older Microsoft browsers, and probably prior to the move toward better standards compliance.

If so, your choice is pretty simple: run IE6 or whatever older version, in a virtual machine, on OS X. Here's an older explanation of how to do that — I don't know off-hand if those testing VMs are still around, or if those have been updated with the more recent IE versions.

There's a Firefox extension or two around that claims Internet Explorer compatibility, and that may or may not work for your requirements. IE Tab is one, IE viewanother.

The older Internet Explorer for Mac is long gone, and entirely incompatible with Mavericks OS X.

If you are using this sort of Enterprise web software as I might infer, then this stuff is already a problem given even Microsoft is moving away from this approach, but you knew that. Fixing this and moving toward standards-complaince is probably outside of your portfolio, however. So... See above.