Comments on: Run Internet Explorer 6 in Mac OS X

By: case

case — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:58:57 +0000

i have firefox installed on my MAC, i need to open an application from work, but it wont let me with firefox. Says I need internet Explorer 6 or 7 , and firefox and chrome are not supported. IS IT OK to download ANOTHER web browser? just for one application?

By: adam tuliper

adam tuliper — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:41:26 +0000

Francois, thèse exploits have been known for years. Your web page is parsed and run on your client machine (html) therefore there have been a whole host of issues that can be exploited. Multimedia type exploits, cross site scripting issues, IE6 content type sniffing failures mean I can inject script into a gif and cause your browser to execute the script as opposed to show a gif. There are many.

By: Amber Sjomeling

Amber Sjomeling — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:22:29 +0000

as stated, the main purpose for this is website testing. although it is a small community of users who use ie6, we must continue to make our website work in them. which means painful ie6 testing, or just designing your site in it to begin with.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:43:25 +0000

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By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:10:00 +0000

I assume you are a high tech software developer since you say that IE7, IE8 and IE9 are “highly exploitable”. Can you give us a single example of how you would go about exploiting these browsers?

BTW, many companies use .NET to develop web apps. Unless you use something like Silverlight, these apps execute on your web server not on your browser. Don’t see how this could make your browser less “RELIABLE”???

By: T Williamson

T Williamson — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:49:36 +0000

Has anyone tried crossover office, it works!

By: SRK

SRK — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:25:37 +0000

I KNOW IT IS HARD FOR SOME TO UNDESTAND WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU NEED IE WITH MAC, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT MY BANK ONLINE OPERATES ON IE AND INCOMPETIBLE WITH MAC. THIS IS IRELAND !!!

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:37:05 +0000

A lot of people seem to misunderstand the need for cross-browser compatibility testing. Most web developers want to make sure their sites render properly on browsers people are using.

So, while I am using a Mac with only Mac OS X installed, I still want to know that my site will work for the masses who seem to be using Internet Explorer.

Of course, I would much rather have a solution that did not require me to purchase a copy of Windows and install a complete operating system on my Mac that I would only ever use for one program that I happen to dislike. The thought of having to purchase yet another program, such as Parallels to run Windows in, only to check sites in IE seems rather overkill to me…

Fortunately, I can run into just about any nearby office and use their outdated computers and browsers… however, it would be nice to have an online solution, or something like that…. or even better yet, if all web devs got together and simply stopped developing or even trying to develop for Internet Explorer, it might force users to use better browsers. LoL… like that’ll ever happen.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:29:18 +0000

It’s a pain in the arse to use, but I have to use on this useless Mac because safari doesn’t download pdf’s on my machine. On firefox it’s ridiculous that in trying to increase the print size you have to keep going up and zooming in every time to increase.
Ludicrous, and I HATE MACS! but have no choice ’cause that’s what hubby has and won’t use anything else.

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:37:46 +0000

Couple of considerations:
You can download the free virtual environment called virtual box and you can install a copy of xp in there… or win 7 if you want to use up more resources. It will require at least 4GB of RAM on your Mac so you can dedicate another 1GB or 2GB to the virtual box virtual machine.
Before you install it, you will want to be sure you have enough space on your mac to make virtual machines. You will need an installation CD and a valid product keycode from Microsoft – or the XP install disk from Dell with the machine product key sticker code. You can re-activate that Dell key, ONLY USING the DELL created INSTALL DISK. But your Mac runs at best performance as long as you are NOT running at 80% hard drive capacity. Also, before you install, reboot the mac and run repair permissions from the disk utility in the utility folder. This will clean up any potential problems with the OS before the installation.
There is another way to go which is to buy parallels, or vmware fusion. I know that vmware has a free virtual machine player, and if you register with their site, you used to be able to download and try read only virtual machines prebuilt. For simple html testing that may be the best option if it exists. Otherwise you can just use virtual box (now form Oracle) for free.
Alternatively you can try WINE from sourceforge. That is another solution. I understand that some companies depend on microsoft .NET to develop web apps, which in turn cause you to use a browser that uses the highly exploitable ActiveX: IE 6, IE7, IE8 and IE 9.
Running this in a virtual machine may be your only RELIABLE option.
One piece of advice – once you install windows xp inside of virtual box (you will need a real registration key) COMPLETELY update the OS using Windows Update – until there are no more upgrades (will require internet access to the virtual machine and several virtual machine reboots), then immediately CLONE the virtual machine. before doing anything else. This way, if you ever have to clean up an infected virtual machine, you can do so by deleting the ld one and re-clone from the known good clone.
Another way to go could be ies4osx, but I have not kept up on that either.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:06:34 +0000

I agree with you. If you have mac, so why in heaven’s name would you pick Internet Explorer as your web browser. You could at least use Safari, but Chrome is the best one. I’ve also heard that the facebook-connected RockMelt is a good web browser, but I haven’t tried it. Anyway, I’m not quite sure if it is mac compatible, but cider will probably take care of that problem

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:20:43 +0000

I didn’t know you could run (certain?) Windows programs on Mac. That’s pretty cool, but I don’t understand why anyone would want to use Explorer for anything other than downloading Firefox or Chrome.

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By: Newcp99

Newcp99 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:33:15 +0000

I’ve followed the WineBottler instructions without success. For IE6 it exits within seconds. For IE7 and 8 the install moves right along for several seconds then gets to “installing IE 7″ and just sits there forever–never finishes. What’s wrong.

I need IE6 or later to run an app required for work.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:36:08 +0000

Wine is very limited in this kind of application. It runs everything through their 32bit conversion. Microsoft never wanted to make the 64bit stuff for mac. What they did make is junk. The wine application is used for gaming, I play left for dead 2 on my new intel mac. Ive never heard of the “Winebottler”, most Wine is done by hand, but it is a new happening so apps will come from it. I use “Cider”, it is close to wine, Ive gotten less bug though.