Run IE6 and IE7 on the Same Computer

I’m back home at my parents house this weekend. I had a bit of spare time of my hands this afternoon so decided I was going to fix the IE6 rendering bug I found yesterday. My parents laptop is fairly new so has IE7 installed, however I’ve discovered a stand-alone version of IE6 on evolt.org. The site also has versions of IE3, 4, and 5 available click here for the download archive. Since the programs are stand-alone they can be run at the same time, which is great if your a developing or testing websites.

# Pete Graham

Comments 4

  1. sim wrote:

    If this works then it might be the greenlight for you to finally install IE7. Oh great joy!

    Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 11:22 am
  2. Pete wrote:

    It definitely works, it even renders everything incorrectly in the exact same way the embedded version of IE6 does ;-)

    Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 11:25 am
  3. sim wrote:

    I suppose this means I have to let IE6 back into my life again :’(

    Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 11:34 am
  4. Venus wrote:

    good article

    Posted 06 Nov 2008 at 1:54 am

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