installing IE6 in addition to IE7

I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.

Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
much.

Jean-Fabrice
Thu Apr 24 02:37:28 PDT 2008

liketofindoutwhy a écrit :
> I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
> Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
> we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
> VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.
>
> Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
> machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
> a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
> much.
>
>
>

Hi,

You can use IETester :

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

It is free, it embeds from IE5.5 to IE8beta1 without changing your
current config.
It works on XPSP2 and Vista.

Hope this helps.

JFR
http://www.debugbar.com

PA
Thu Apr 24 06:27:02 PDT 2008

See these earlier discussions:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_frm/thread/63e676a592730ffa

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_frm/thread/1e40d40f65fa976e
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liketofindoutwhy wrote:
> I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
> Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
> we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
> VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.
>
> Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
> machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
> a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
> much.