#Ie11 emulator for mac plus#

The extension's Support for Adblock Plus is a nice touch, too. And while Internet Explorer was removed from the default list of user agents in macOS Catalina, you can still add it as on by changing the user agent string.

It can event tell a website that you're running Windows. Still, IE Tab for Firefox is great if you have a few particular Web sites that you frequently visit and have to switch to IE for, and it works well enough at handling the occasional new site you might stumble upon, if in a slightly roundabout way. Changing the user agent tells websites that you're using a browser other than the version of Safari that you're using on your Mac. IE Tab for Firefox also has a context menu option that lets you launch IE and load the current page, which worked fine unfortunately, the option to switch rendering engines in the context menu didn't seem to do anything. We had only to open the IE Tab options menu, add the site to the extension's filter, and reload the page everything worked as expected. Sure enough, many of the sites failed to load properly in Firefox and gave us error messages informing us that Internet Explorer was required. In order to find fodder for testing the extension we consulted a Web page titled 'Sites that Make Firefox Sad,' which provided us with a lengthy list of sites that are still demanding the use of Internet Explorer. IE Tab for Firefox installed easily and was ready for action after we restarted the browser.

It's a brilliant solution to the problem of switching back and forth between two different browsers. This clever extension lets you open IE-only Web sites within Firefox. If you find yourself doing the same thing even though Firefox is your browser of choice, try IE Tab for Firefox. We don't like Internet Explorer, but we keep it around, because every now and then we encounter some dinosaur of a Web site that can't be viewed without it.