IE Tab
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| Developer(s) | PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), yuoo2k |
| Initial release | ? |
| Stable release | 1.5.20090207 / February 7th, 2009 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Browser extension |
| License | GPL |
| Website | ietab.mozdev.org |
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IE Tab is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox, Flock and SeaMonkey web browsers. IE Tab allows users to view pages using the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within Firefox. This may be useful for viewing pages that only work in Internet Explorer (e.g. Windows Update) without exiting Firefox. Pages viewed through the IE Tab extension will be recorded in Internet Explorer's history, cache, and so on, as if they had been viewed directly in Internet Explorer. The extension has become popular among web developers, since they can display and compare their websites in the two browsers simultaneously.
Laura Blackwell of PC World wrote that the extension is also useful for die-hard Firefox fans who still keep an Internet Explorer window open "just for those holdout sites that require IE to function." The extension "makes it a little easier to reduce your IE dependency: It lets you open a Firefox browser tab that runs sites intended for IE."[1]
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[edit] History
IE Tab was originally conceived by a Taiwanese medical student, Hong Jen Yee, a free software enthusiast known as PCMan on the internet. He first developed the plugin and provided a simple demo page, and then released it to the forum of Taiwan Mozilla community. It caught the attention of three other Taiwanese Firefox extension developers, known online as yuoo2k, dexter, and softcup. They created an extension to facilitate the use of that plugin. The developers then started to work together. With some instructions for XPCOM usage from European Mozilla developer Christian Biesinger, they finally integrated the plugin and the extension successfully, and formed the prototype of IE Tab. After its release on mozdev.org and the MozillaZine forum, the tool became quite popular.
[edit] Development status
The original developer, Hong Jen Yee, quit the project in early 2006 because he had become a full-time Linux user. The project is still under development by yuoo2k.
[edit] References
- ^ Blackwell, Laura (May 4, 2006). "Add IE Tabs to Firefox". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050300294.html. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
