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What's New
- v1.4 released (October 18, 2008).
Introduction
IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments -- particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that's actually interesting -- when I need to see what things look like in IE.
IE View adds menu items to the page context menu, and the link context menu. Right-clicking a link now includes an "Open link target in IE" menu item. Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this page in IE."
You can also add sites to an "always-view-in-IE" list. These sites, when reached in Firefox,
will automatically reopen in Internet Explorer. The site you are currently viewing can be added via the
Firefox Tools menu, or by opening the Tools | Add-ons | IE View | Options window
(screenshots).
Known Issues
Recent IE View versions don't get along well with the TabBrowser Extensions package. Unfortunately, many extensions do not get along well with TBE. For more information, see the FAQ for information on disabling Always-View-in-IE.
User Jim Courtney reports better luck using TabMix in place of TabBrowser extensions - TabMix has many of the functions of TBE, as well as additional functionality of its own, and plays well with others.
Users of Agnitum Outpost firewall software will likely have problems using IE View. Outpost (unlike any other firewall product of which I'm aware) considers the Internet Explorer process launched by IE View and Firefox to be "hidden", and denies it internet access. See bug 5939 for more discussion.
There is no automatic uninstaller for Mozilla. Under Firefox, we just work with the built-in extension uninstaller, and eventually Mozilla should catch up. In the meantime, if you want to remove IE View, I'd suggest you use Jeremy Gillick's Extension Uninstaller. Works like a charm.
At the moment, this works under Windows only. A technique for getting it to work under Mac OSX can be found in the FAQ. Linux instructions can be found on the IE View on Linux page.
Credits
Being new to XUL, I spent a good amount of time wandering through the collected docs at XulPlanet.
Through the wonders of the MPL, I was able to crib some of the context-menu addition code from Ted Mielczarek's Nuke Image extension. Parts of the actual run-an-external-app footwork were taken from Torisugari's External Application Buttons extension.
Contributors:
| 3ARRANO.com: | Basque Translation |
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| acushnir: | Spanish (Argentina) Translation |
| Andreas Boettcher: | German translation |
| Andrew Kota: | Hungarian translation |
| Bart: | German translation |
| Bartosz Piec, Leszek(teo)Życzkowski: | Polish translation |
| BatBat: | French translation |
| Chankyu Park, sushizang: | Korean translation |
| Drunkey Love: | Icon Source Art |
| Duriel, WangKing: | Simplified Chinese translation |
| Eduardo Rapoport, Silvio Santos, raryelcsouza: | Portuguese (Brazil) translation |
| Fulya Koksal, Aycan Demirel: | Turkish Translation |
| Gert-Paul van der Beek: | Dutch translation |
| Giovanni Francesco SOLONE: | Italian translation |
| Giuliano Masseroni: | Italian translation |
| J.I. Plaza: | Spanish translation |
| Jarno Kiuttu, yoneh: | Finnish translation |
| Joao Santos, Eduardo Rapaport: | Portuguese translation |
| Karol Ptasinski: | Norsk Translation |
| Kim Ludvigsen: | Danish translation |
| lcraFTl: | Russian translation |
| Ljubisa Radovanovic: | Serbian translation |
| micmic: | Spanish translation |
| miles: | Slovenian Translation |
| moZes: | Frysian Translation |
| Norah Models: | Japanese translation |
| Pavel Penaz: | Czech translation |
| Phireak: | Khmer Translation |
| Rotem Liss: | Hebrew translation |
| Thomas Bertels: | French translation, Description Localization |
| Thomas Nilsson: | Swedish translation |
| Toni Hermoso Pulido, Toni Barrera Arboix: | Catalan translation |
| Willy Young: | Traditional Chinese translation |
| Wladow: | Slovak Translation |