Test IE6 in Vista with IETester

Posted At : March 19, 2008 6:37 PM | Posted By : Justin Carter
Related Categories: Internet Explorer,Vista

This one came across my Inbox last week and I didn't get around to blogging it until now. The folks that make the DebugBar (free for private use only) and Companion.JS (free) addons for Internet Explorer have released a new (also free) tool called IETester.

It works in both Windows XP and Windows Vista when you have IE7 installed as the default browser and allows you to test in IE5.5 and IE6 (I'm not sure if IE8 Beta 1 has any negative effects on it though).

It's only an alpha release but from the quick testing I've done it seems to work quite well. The only immediate issue I had was that it assumed Flash support was available but it was unable to render Flash content on any of the sites I tried.

So if you aren't a fan of running a virtual machine all day long this could be a promising option :)

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That looks nice, I wonder how it compares to Multiple-IE (http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone).

Sometimes with Multiple-IE I think the rendering isn't quite the same as the official IE6
# Posted By Michael Sharman | 3/20/08 5:36 AM
Not sure how this thing works, but I do know that the "multiple-IE" doesn't support sessions so you can't test anything with authentication (like an extranet).
# Posted By Bash | 3/20/08 10:44 AM
From what I understand Multiple-IE is amazingly buggy on Vista, so up until now I have been using the IE6 Virtual PC VHD's that Microsoft release periodically. If you visit the following URL you can find XP SP2 images with IE6, IE7 and IE8 (Beta 1, I presume), as well as Vista images with IE7 (Not sure why there is 3 different downloads for this version though!)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/20/08 6:57 PM
Hi,

Not that version 0.2 has been released with IE8 beta 1 support (without the need to install it ! so you can keep IE7 as default browser on your machine).

Enjoy.
# Posted By JFR | 3/21/08 5:22 AM
@JFR: Wow, very nice! IETester is shaping up to be a very handy tool :)
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/21/08 7:19 AM
thanks for this, works fine for me so far...
# Posted By plai | 4/2/08 7:48 PM
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