Is there an "IE tab" tool for Safari?

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Is there an "IE tab" tool for Safari?

There are several important financial websites that I need to follow for work that only display and print correctly from IE. Now that IE for Mac is dead [amen], I am wondering if there is a way to emulate IE inside of Safari for those websites that don't display properly in Safari. no, they do not have RSS feeds. Firefox has something like this called IE Tab, but it is only for Windows. Is there anything like this for Mac? Please help! Thanks

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Posted on Oct 19, 2006 2:46 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 19, 2006 2:51 PM in response to Eva Braiman

There is no way to emulate IE inside of Safari, even using the User Agent setting in the debug menu (which doesn't usually work). Windows coded sites sometimes can be quite a challenge when it comes to rendering on the Mac platform, especially if MS Active-X code is used, which is not compatible.

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Answer 2

Oct 19, 2006 8:45 PM in response to Eva Braiman

Hi Eva! 😀

Do these sites display and print correctly with Firefox/Camino on Mac? Hawaiian_Starman answered your question perfectly, I would just hope that these sites have at least made their content compatible with Firefox on Mac...if not then basically they have no Mac compatability... 😟

Reg

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Eva Braiman Author

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Oct 20, 2006 7:54 AM in response to Reggie Ashworth

No, I'm afraid the sites in question do not print properly from Firefox, Camino or Opera on Mac. Only IE. I can't even find an installer for IE 5.2.3 for Mac anywhere, including version tracker. Really was yanked out of the universe. Anyone know where to get it? Does it even run on Intel Macs? Thanks.

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Answer 4

Oct 20, 2006 7:59 AM in response to Eva Braiman

Hi Eva!

I too have heard it's been yanked out of existence and even if it was around I'm pretty sure it won't run on your Intel Mac. Sorry to hear that no other browsers will work. You know maybe some of the posters would have a copy of IE that they could email to you? I would but I don't have a copy anymore...I trashed it! Sorry... 😀

If I can think of any way to help I'll post back...

Reg

PS - Maybe you can do what you can to push these websites to fix their compatability issues. For sure it's not realistic to have a site that is not Mac compatible...

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Dimaxum

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Oct 20, 2006 8:18 AM in response to Eva Braiman

Hi Eva,

Try this site to find a suitable browser ...

Macintosh Web Browsers

** Indeed the IE is nowhere to find for downloading any more.

Hope fully you will find where you looking for.

Dimaxum

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Answer 6

Oct 20, 2006 10:24 AM in response to Hawaiian_Starman

The site Andy references will download IE. Also, this site has downloads for a variety of browsers, including IE. One word of caution here - IE has not been updated by Microsoft for security concerns, vulnerabilities, etc. since 2003. I guess "buyer beware" applies here.

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