Even if you use Firefox as your primary browser, there might be occasions when you are forced to use Internet Explorer. Like for instance, downloading updates from Microsoft website or running an online virus scan which requires an ActiveX to be installed. There could also be the rare case of a page that does not render itself correctly in Firefox.

If you have been using Firefox for quite some time, you might find that you hate to leave Firefox, even if it was for a short time. If that’s true, then what you need is IE Tab.

IE Tab is a Firefox extension that instructs Firefox to temporarily use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine. So you don’t have to fire up Internet Explorer separately if/when the necessity arises. The beauty of IE Tab is that just one tab in Firefox can be rendered as Internet Explorer while the other tabs continue to use the Firefox engine. And it can be done on the fly. Once you have installed IE Tab, a small Firefox icon appears in the bottom right corner of Firefox.

To switch a page from Firefox to Internet Explorer just click on the icon and the page reloads with IE engine or you could middle click on the icon to open a new Internet Explorer tab. The icon itself turns to the IE icon. To switch it back to Firefox click on it again.

Another advantage is that the browsing history and bookmarks are all still with Firefox.

Download IE Tab.

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