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Multiple Versions of IE on same machine

At Acumentum we always test our designs on multiple browsers. As we all know, one of the great pains in our business is getting a design to look, as it should, across a variety of browsers.

Internet Explorer 6 is still the most common browser on the web, yet in our office most people are running Firefox 2.0 and IE7. This makes quick testing, as you go, a pain, as IE5, IE5.5, IE6 and IE7 cannot co-exist on the same machine…or at least that used to be the case.

One of the enterprising lads in the office found that some clever people at Tredosoft have created an installer (10.3 MB) that allows you to have all versions of IE available on the same machine.

This is one of the most useful tools I’ve seen this year.

5 Comments

  1. Michaela Coutakis

    Thanks very much for this. It has saved us a great deal of hassle

    Cheers
    Michaela

  2. Christopherkhalil

    Hi Michaela,

    Glad you found it useful!
    Chris

  3. Sunil

    Hi Chris,
    thanks its nice tool but..
    is it free tool and i tried to install it and it just shows till IE6 version not IE7
    how can we test on IE 7 then..

    thanks
    Sunil

  4. Christopherkhalil

    Hey Sunil,

    I’m afraid it’s been a while since I’ve used this tool. So, I don’t think I can be of much help, may I suggest you investigate through the vendor website.

    Cheers
    Chris

  5. Waajid

    Hi Chris

    Thanks for posting this..
    I have downloaded the tool and found it very useful.

    regards
    Waajid Aslam

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