IE6 and IE7 Together, Sort Of

Published by Toronto Mike on December 1, 2006 @ 19:23 in Technology

firefoxMicrosoft's release of IE7 has made my life difficult. In the past I would develop a site and check it out in Firefox and IE6 to make sure all was well. I've yet to install IE7 because doing so will clobber my installation of IE6. I don't want to lose IE6 because I want to be able to test my code with that browser which an awful lot of fools people are still using.

Not installing IE7 has created another problem. How do I test my code in IE7 if I can't have both IE6 and IE7 running on my pc? I can have multiple version of Firefox, but only the one version of IE. I just came upon this IEBlog entry about running IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. They recommend running IE6 in a virtual instance using their Virtual PC. There are links on that page, if you've got the same issue I do.

One more thing. Get Firefox and the entire issue becomes moot. Thanks.

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3 Responses to "IE6 and IE7 Together, Sort Of"

Doug
December 2, 2006 / 09:39

You mean you only have one computer?!? ;-)

Roshan
December 2, 2006 / 10:14

Hey, I already got Firefox a few weeks ago and after using it for a while, I must say that I rank it miles ahead of IE. I also have Opera and now rarely use IE, like when my MSN messenger signals that I have new mail, I click it and IE opens. I prefer FireFox right now.

Mike Boon
December 2, 2006 / 10:47

The other "must have" app is Gaim. No more MSN Messenger! With Gaim, I'm online with MSN, Yahoo! and GTalk via one convenient and slick little client.

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