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Running Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 on the same machine

Is there any way to have Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0 and Internet Explorer 8.0 all installed on the same machine? Using Windows XP?

I am trying to test my web application, and it must be able to run in Internet Explorer 6-8.

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Alan
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    Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574463/running-ie6-ie7-and-ie8-on-the-same-machine , others. – glasnt Jun 23 '09 at 03:18
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Not that I know of ... we use VirtualPC to handle that situation.

JP Alioto
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I think IETester is what you are looking for. http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

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    works great as long as you don't have popups that interact with their opener... IETester doesn't handle those very well. – scunliffe Jun 23 '09 at 03:44
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I don't believe there is a simple solution to this. I think the best solutionis to setup something like VMWare and have multiple version of Windows installed on each:

  • Windows XP - IE 6.x
  • Windows XP - IE 7.x
  • Windows XP - IE 8.x

I say Windows XP because you might have issues getting/installing older version of IE on Vista.

http://www.vmware.com/

Good luck.

Jonathan Holloway
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Start with IE 8 installed,

Install IE7 Standalone

Install IE6 (and below if needed)

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For the last few months I have switched to just using the developer tools included with IE8. It lets you change the document rendering mode on the fly (Quirks, IE7, IE8) as well as the browser mode (IE7, IE8, IE8 Compatibility). Combined with Virtual PC for any additional browsers that may need to be tested it's a pretty solid setup that is nice and convenient.

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  • Even though it does have these modes, IE8 does not completely replicate the behavior of IE7. Even though I've switched to IE7 mode, I can still see differences between it and IE7. – johnofcross Jul 29 '10 at 12:34
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The application MultipleIE that lets you run IE 3, 4, 5, 5.5 and 6 at the same time.

And then you can run IE7 in standalone mode.

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