Need a good Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 standalone

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Internet Explorer Problem Overview

> Possible Duplicate:
> Running Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 on the same machine

I need recommendations on a good Internet Explorer standalone for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8.

I tried using Tredosoft's Internet Explorer 7 standalone and MultiIE for Internet Explorer 6, but select elements were being blocked as pop-ups, even when the pop-up blocker was turned off, in all Internet Explorer browsers (6,7,8).

I also tried the Internet Explorer Collection from Edskes, but Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 refuse to let me type in a text box.

If someone can provide me with either a solution or an alternative that'd be brilliant.

Also, I'm using VMware Fusion to run Windows XP on my Mac.

Internet Explorer Solutions

Solution 1 - Internet Explorer

You could try IETester.

Update In 2015 this is now the wrong answer to this question. See the accepted answer of the duplicate question linked above for a better solution (https://stackoverflow.com/a/574465/70795)

Solution 2 - Internet Explorer

Have you tried the compatibility virtual machines? They are from MS and free. I have used them for IE 6 testing.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

VM's are available for 6,7, and 8 in Windows XP SP3.

Solution 3 - Internet Explorer

If you need a way to test your app on the different IE-versions, you can download and install Microsoft Virtual PC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6

...and download VHD-files with Windows installations with the different browsers included: http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en

Solution 4 - Internet Explorer

Spoon provides a good list of virtualized browsers, including IE 6, 7 and 8.

http://spoon.net/browsers/

Solution 5 - Internet Explorer

You're out of luck if you're trying to run them all reliably in one VM. There are several products out there, but none are perfect (they work mostly through DLL hacks).

My recommendation would be to create multiple VMs in VMware and install a different version of Internet Explorer on each. That way you get the true, full experience.

Solution 6 - Internet Explorer

Test in IE 6, 7, 8 and about 50 other browsers on multiple platforms for free, with no downloads or virtual machines required: http://browsershots.org/

Solution 7 - Internet Explorer

Clone your VMWare virtual machine, and selectively upgrade the clones.

Solution 8 - Internet Explorer

I love this one, best one I've used so far:

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Solution 9 - Internet Explorer

http://www.xenocode.com/

I started looking at this the other day. It seemed to work ok in my very limited testing.

Solution 10 - Internet Explorer

For testing purposes I've used the browsers archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/ . The Internet Explorer 6 standalone version work on Windows XP; it does't work on Windows Vista.

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