How do I run the latest ver. of Internet Explorer on a Mac?

[crazychile]

Hello Everyone,

I have an old Mac Mini with Intel core solo processor (and Tiger OS) that I need to run the LATEST version of Internet Explorer on. There are specific websites I use for work that dont play well with anything but IE. When I go online it looks like I can down load a version for the Mac, but it's a really old version and wont work for what I need.

In addition, I'm buying a MacBook Pro in a short while and could use that instead of the Mini if Snow Leopard makes it easier to use IE.

So what is the easiest way to do this? I really dont want to load XP or Vista on the Mac if I can avoid it.

Thanks!
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crazychile

[TonyMontana]

I have a few sites that require this as well. The only way I can get around it is to use I.E. 8 in windows under bootcamp. Some sites won't even let me use the 64bit version and only use the 32bit version of I.E.
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[mooblie]

The latest (last?) version of IE for Mac was Version 5.1.6 from 2002 !!! I'm sure it won't run with any current OSX.

Whoever told you you need the "latest version of IE" clearly isn't Mac friendly at all.

However, there are ways of making a modern Mac browser inform a website that it's a current Windows version of IE, but you'll have to search for that (or maybe somebody here knows how to get that going?)
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[Cypher]

[TonyMontana]

[Smithcraft]

Just to note, that option will only work if the site does not require any ActiveX features.

SC
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[Chris..S]

It won't really work at all. It helps if a site decides not to play with browsers that aren't IE, but it doesn't help if the site is built expecting the specific behaviour of IE.

If you need to run IE on your Mini, get some virtualisation software. The three main ones are VMWare Fusion, Parallels & VirtualBox. These allow you to run a full windows install from within your Mac OS. You'll need to review the packages for Tiger & Core Solo support. I ran early versions of Fusion on a Core Duo+Tiger mini without problems, so I would think it'll work with Core Solo (Core Duo was 2x Core solo).

[TonyMontana]

I just tried this (thank you Cypher) on a site that deals with medical insurance applications. Previously I had to fire up windows and use ONLY IE8 32bit. Changing the user agent in Safari worked perfectly.
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[Smithcraft]

I seem to recall that a web developer I used to know said that he used Darwine to run IE, but it's been so long, I can't really recall the details. Plus that was for IE 6.

SC
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[Desktop] G4 mini - 1.5Ghz 1GB 80GB HDD - Newer miniStack v2 500GB - 10.5.8

[Media System] Intel i5 mini - 2.33Ghz 8GB 500GB HDD - 4 x Hitachi 2TB HDD in a qBOX-SF - 10.7.5 (Thanks Phil!)

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[jb]

Check out this link, maybe it will help.

http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/20/run-internet-explorer-on-your-mac/

[iMav]