Thread: Finding it hard to manage without Internet Explorer

Thank you ALL for your help! By the way, My mom is one of the top real estate agents in the province (you know, if any of you are looking to buy or sell ) and she is crazy-paranoid about getting viruses on her PC. She loves the idea of how a Mac gets virtually no viruses. BUT, as a realtor, she MUST have access to the TMLS (Toronto Multiple Listing Service) which is notorious for ONLY supporting INTERNET EXPLORER 6! They do not support 7, or...

Quote: Originally Posted by Elric Cool idea, but, "This service is unavailable on your device" No you can't run it from OSX as I said you have to be running a version of IE, so if you are on a Mac you have to be running IE either through a virtualized or BootCamp Installation of Windows.

Quote: Originally Posted by screature BTW you can install a standalone version of IE 7in Windows and run it simultaneously with IE 6. This is what I do. Works great, so no need for multiple VMs running at the same time. I just found a standalone of IE8. You can get it here No quite. This solution gives you the "shell" of various versions of IE but it uses the most recently installed rendering engine... (Check Help ->...

+1 DDKD726, Crossover has no problem running IE 6 (or IE 7 for that matter) complete with the Active-X crapola that makes MLS services like TMLS work. And of course Macs can run Windows via Boot Camp, Parallels, VMWare, et al but only Crossover's method precludes the viruses. You really should look into it, free demo et al.

Quote: Originally Posted by PierreB I thought that netscape was the base for Mozilla Firefox - if that is the case, their market share is not that bad. Mozilla was a development of a new rendering engine for Netscape, to replace the old Mosaic based engine that had been added on to for so many years. Corporate shenanigans left Netscape out to rot, in a way, as they started pushing Mozilla - which became the basis of a new browser, FireFox;...

I see Evan has found this thread .... Evan buddy, hate to break it to you, but IE has absolutely NO dependancy on BIOS whatsoever, nor does just about any userspace application (unless it reads/writes to the BIOS directly). Where DO you come up with this stuff? I agree with screature that virtualization is the way to go for testing. I do much the same, test IE6, IE7 and IE8 (as well as FF and Opera and Chrome) in VM's. Screature ... if...

Quote: Originally Posted by HowEver What is Netscape Navigator's market share these days? Macosxhints latest poll results - of course this is Mac-centric... Most Windows users I know currently use FireF*cks.... Screen shot 2009-09-22 at 10.07.32 AM.png

VirtualBox (or Parallels or VMware Fusion) run Windows in a window in Mac OS X. No need to reboot yer Mac into Windows like with BootCamp. Most resources available to Mac OS X (networking for example) are available to Windows running this way.

Quote: Originally Posted by PierreB I thought that netscape was the base for Mozilla Firefox - if that is the case, their market share is not that bad. netscape is based on the mozilla engine. Netscape had its own mail client, etc... was quite good back in the days. When Netscape communications was bought out by AOL, they did not keep netscape navigator, and left the market for other browsers.

Try a search on Google for "Darwine and Internet Explorer". Darwine will permit to you use iE on your Mac. i have done this because one of the sites I use with some frequency only renders in IE.