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Filed under: Utilities, Browsers

Coral IE Tab: the best way to view IE-only sites in Firefox

If you're a Firefox fan who frequently has to use sites that only display properly in Internet Explorer, don't despair. Coral IE Tab lets you do it without running two browsers at once. It's a modified version of the popular IE Tab add-on, with a couple of important features added on. Like IE Tab, it displays pages as if you were using Internet Explorer, but it also saves your cookies and works with the Adblock Plus add-on.

In Coral IE Tab's settings, you can assign preferences to individual sites, so you don't have to manually switch to IE whenever you visit an offending page. If you're already running IE Tab, Coral IE Tab can import its settings (you should disable it afterward to avoid any conflicts). I hope that we can leave IE-only sites behind sooner rather than later but, until that time, an add-on beats running an entire second browser.

[via instantfundas]


Filed under: Windows, Freeware, Browsers

ChromePlus adds IETab, mouse gestures, more to Google Chrome

ChromePlus
Like Google Chrome, but wish it had just a few more features like support for mouse gestures and the ability to use the Internet Explorer rendering engine to access some web pages that don't play well with Webkit? ChromePlus is a browser built on Chrome that does all those things, plus a few more. It also has the following features:
  • Double click a tab to close a page
  • Drag a link on any page to a new point on the page to open link in a new tab
  • Support for download tools in the right-click context menu
I had no problems with ChromePlus on a 32-bit Windows XP system, but Lee found that it didn't play well with his computer running the x64 version of Windows 7. Your results may vary.
[via Life Rocks 2.0

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Browser Tips

How to add an IETab-like feature to Opera

Neptune
While there are dozens of excellent web browsers for Windows, Mac, and Linux, many of them have a problem: There are a handful of web pages and services that are only designed to work properly with Internet Explorer, Firefox, or both. So as much as we love the speedy little Opera web browser, we've been reluctant to use it on a day to day basis. And then we discovered Neptune, a plugin that lets you open an Internet Explorer-compatible tab within Opera. Note that Neptune will only work on Windows, since you need to have Internet Explorer installed for the plugin to function properly.

In order to install the free plugin, download it, close Opera, and click the Neptune executable. Next, you'll want to find your Internet Explorer plugin folder (which will probably be something like "c:\program files\internet explorer\plugins," and copy the file called npmeadax.dll to your Opera plugin folder, which will probably be something like "c:\program files\opera\program\plugins."

Next you'll need to add a button to your browser toolbar to let you open a window using the IE rendering engine. You can find several buttons at OperaWiki. Just drag the button with the function you want to your toolbar. Make sure to drag it to the "Main bar" and not your "Personal bar." Because these bookmarklets use Javascript, if you put them in the Personal bar, they'll be converted into bookmarks that don't really do much of anything.

You can choose from several buttons that let you open a URL using the IE rendering engine in your current tab or in a new tab. Alternately, you can use the InIE and InFF buttons to open a URL in an external window using Firefox or Internet Explorer.

[via Opera Watch]

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Blogging, Productivity, Freeware, Browser Tips

Optool, a smart browser switcher - Today's Browser Tip

In today's day and age of multiple viable browsers, it can be a minor annoyance to have to copy and paste URLs from one browser window to another to move a page from, say, Opera to Firefox. Or IE to Netcaptor. Or Maxthon to Firefox. You get the picture.

For many, simply having the option of rendering a page with the IE engine as an alternative to Firefox is all you need; in that case give the IE Tab Firefox extension a whirl. It can render a page using IE right in a tab in Firefox. Very cool.

But for those with more challenging multiple browser scenarios, Optool is the solution. With the tap of a hot-key, or an ingenious long right-click, a page can be moved from one browser to another with no fuss, no muss. Out of the box, Optool supports and can automatically detect Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer (multiple installations), Netcaptor, and Netscape. And if that's not quite enough for you (hey, where's Maxthon?!) you can manually configure additional browsers.

Optool is not quite free, although it's close. If you find you use it regularly, the author of Optool requests that you send him a postcard from your location. Hey, that's not too much to ask, right?

[via Chris Pirillo]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Microsoft, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

IE Tab - Today's Browser Tip

IE
Tab for FirefoxFor whatever reason, it's sometimes necessary to view a web site in Internet Explorer. Except, now it's not. IE Tab is an extension for Firefox that creates tabs in Firefox that are rendered by Internet Explorer, which means that any IE-specific scripts and plugins will work, right inside Firefox. Of course, that means security flaws will, too, but if you only use it when absolutely necessary that won't be a problem. IE Tab even lets you use Windows Update within a Firefox tab.

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