Comments on: How to Download and get Internet Explorer for Mac

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:27:14 +0000

Install it, ya dope.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:22:09 +0000

Was prompted to install some x11 program which is fine but nothing happens. Go into apps folder where I placed the download and it’s not their. Tried several times. I am admittedly not tech savvy, this wasted a lot of time.

By: M

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:04:42 +0000

This doesnt work. Keep getting a failed message- FATAL ERROR for IE8 &9. IE7 doesnt have javascript which is what I need. Any other solution?

By: jackies35

jackies35 — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:15:58 +0000

what is X11?

By: R

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:49:10 +0000

I installed winebottler, its ok. I had the same problems described on this thread. i have X11. IE6 and 8 never installed correctly, and i have tried several times. IE7 runs well, but developing websites, it’s really annoying that it doesnt show jquery sliders…so i dont know if they show or not on IE, but as far as everything else (alignment, fonts, etc), its pretty helpful. i will keep it, but keep looking…and thanks everyone for the comments, makes us more informed and everyone learns.

By: Oak

Oak — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:20:35 +0000

X11 is on the install disc, not part of XCode.

IE7 and 8 will not work in Wine or WineBottler without a *lot* of tinkering.

IE6 works with great limitations.

And as far as IE5 goes: it is so outdated that it won’t work with most modern websites. And, needing Rosetta, it will not function at all on Mac OS 10.7 Lion.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:33:57 +0000

Jim,

I’d highly recommend installing IE8 as a virtual machine. It’s relatively easy to do and totally free by utilizing Microsofts test environments:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/04/internet-explorer-for-mac-ie7-ie8-ie-9-free/

Check it out, it’s better than the Winebottler methods.

- Will

By: jim

jim — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:22:50 +0000

Does anyone have a more consistent, modern solution to this?
The only reason, really, to use IE on Mac is for testing, and none of the Winebottler installs are any good for this.

The IE8 simply refuses to work, IE6 won’t install, and IE7 doesn’t support javascript.

They aren’t much more than a curiosity really.

By: victor

victor — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:35:27 +0000

I had the same thing but figured it out.. I used the EI7, When you open it go straight to google using the top URL bar like normal. then do all your URLs through google. I had the connecting and freeze issue but it worked if i went through google. It was still useless for me though because it wont bring me to hotmail, and if i need to login to something, the login box is missing. Flash issue maybe???

By: al

al — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:54:41 +0000

I have the same problem then most of you guys, is there any other way beside wine bottler for IE?

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By: Dana W

Dana W — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:06:53 +0000

So, having the same issue as a lot of others out there… Getting the “Prefix creation exited with error”. When looking at the log file I see the last line reporting “Task returned with status 15″.

I have X11 installed, running 10.6.8 using the newest version of WineBottler 1.1.44.

Anyone able to get IE6 to install at all? How’d you do it?

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By: JMA

JMA — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:10:08 +0000

IE didn’t lose because Microsoft has a monopoly on certain business programs. IE stinks, but some of us cannot use anything else. Bummer.

By: JMA

JMA — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:09:14 +0000

Finding the same problems, and it’s frustrating to say the least. It seems to work for some, which is even more frustrating. I don’t want to reopen the Pandora’s box that is Windows, but I cannot avoid using IE because Microsoft powers my real estate search programs.