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How to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on your PC
by Brad Linder Sep 20th 2007 at 4:00PM
But if you're a developer and you want to see how your website looks to someone running an ancient browser, you might want to install an old copy of Internet Explorer alongside your IE7. And it turns out that this is completely doable if a little complicated. You need to alter some settings, redirect some DLLs, and rename a few things here and there.
Or you can just download the installer Yousif Al Saif created. It will install Internet Explorer 3, 4.01, 5, 5.5, and 6 on your PC. You'll probably want to make sure you're already running IE7 when you begin. The installer will not work with Windows Vista, but if you've got Windows XP, you can be the first on your block to run 6 different versions of Internet Explorer. Your neighbors will be so jealous.
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Dan said 4:55PM on 9-20-2007
The multiple IE hack is indispensable when I'm designing. Of course (being a designer) I'm on a Mac - but this method works perfectly both inside Virtual PC on my G5 and in Parallels on my Intel machine. To round out the browser testing, here's a link to get multiple version of Safari on your machine too:
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
Apple usually overwrites existing apps each time an update is installed.
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Mark said 10:55PM on 9-20-2007
OH MY GOD. If only you had posted this yesterday! Trying to get Microsoft Virtual PC setup took for-freekin-ever, while this took 2 minutes.
Why couldn't Microsoft release something like this on their own?! Think of the developers! Doesn't anyone think of the developers??
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kingkool68 said 5:43PM on 9-20-2007
I have found these standalone versions of IE to be a little off compared to the native versions. I find it easier to just use an old computer with a native copy of IE6 just for testing purposes. I knew that old 550mhz beast of a machine would come in handy one day.
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PS_4 said 7:31PM on 9-20-2007
IE6 from Multiple IE doesn't display PNGs like the normal IE6. It took me soooo long to find out why my PNG hacks weren't working, even when I followed instructions perfectly.
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Jake said 7:32PM on 9-20-2007
Using IEs4Linux for IE5-7 and reagular WINE for IE 1.0-4, I can do this on Linux.
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