Need a good Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 standalone

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

I need recommendations on a good Internet Explorer standalone for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8.

I tried using Tredosoft's Internet Explorer 7 standalone and MultiIE for Internet Explorer 6, but select elements were being blocked as pop-ups, even when the pop-up blocker was turned off, in all Internet Explorer browsers (6,7,8).

I also tried the Internet Explorer Collection from Edskes, but Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 refuse to let me type in a text box.

If someone can provide me with either a solution or an alternative that'd be brilliant.

Also, I'm using VMware Fusion to run Windows XP on my Mac.

You'll first have to tell some of us what an "IE standalone" is. — John Saunders, Jun 30 '09 at 20:54
OK, the end result of what I'm trying to do is be able to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same installation of Windows and have them behave as they normally would. I can't use browser shots as I need to be able to test functionality, not just layout. I think I might try the Xenocode ones for the short term, but I'm looking for something that I can run locally. — , Jun 30 '09 at 21:19
I won't be going for the Microsoft option as I'm hoping for something that continues to work and that I don't have to deal with every three months. It sounds like far too much of an issue. I'm going to look into using multiple snapshots or multiple virtual machines unless someone has a better option. — , Jun 30 '09 at 22:21

score 41 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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You could try IETester.

Update In 2015 this is now the wrong answer to this question. See the accepted answer of the duplicate question linked above for a better solution (https://stackoverflow.com/a/574465/70795)

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This has worked very well for me. Easily open a URL in IE 5.5, 6, 7, 8 all with one click. – Neil N Jun 30 '09 at 21:00
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This is the coolest thing ever. Where is the buzz? – hlfcoding Jul 04 '09 at 22:14
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IETester is a great little app but be warned it isn't a true representation of the various versions of IE. – Matt Smith Feb 17 '10 at 16:11
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I just tried this. It's completely off for IE 6, & 7. – asnyder Apr 30 '10 at 17:52
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No way to turn off Flash in IETester :( – Dmitri Farkov Jun 16 '10 at 19:52
@asnyder i also just tried this. it is not off for ie6 or 7 – Jason May 05 '11 at 19:05
It has always given me varied results - in some instances it has definitely NOT given the same results of the actual browsers... – megaSteve4 Oct 06 '12 at 18:58
Stupid parent company software only works in IE8. IE9's IE8 development mode doesn't work, IETester doesn't work, FF/etc doesn't work. Any thoughts? – B T Jan 03 '13 at 21:39
I think testing natively is the best – Matthias Wegtun Jun 04 '13 at 14:07
The compatibility VM's are the only true way to test IE8 as @rifferte says in their answer below. – Hades Oct 23 '13 at 08:28
@Hades if I was answering this today I would agree with you. I have also found Browserstack useful recently. – Mark Oct 23 '13 at 09:06

score 36 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 20:55

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Have you tried the compatibility virtual machines? They are from MS and free. I have used them for IE 6 testing.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

VM's are available for 6,7, and 8 in Windows XP SP3.

answered Jun 30 '09 at 20:55

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Exactly my thoughts...great link though! – Justin Niessner Jun 30 '09 at 20:57
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Bear in mind that these images expire after a few months (all at the same time, so if you download it a day before it expires then you will only have its use for a day). They also require the free MS Virtual PC 2007. New ones are typically released within a week or two of the old ones expiring (not immediately, which is annoying) and are valid for about 3 months. – Wayne Koorts Jun 30 '09 at 21:00
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Microsoft organized all their browser VMs in one place now, available here: http://www.modern.ie/en-US/virtualization-tools#downloads – Tony Wall Aug 20 '13 at 16:23

score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 20:58

If you need a way to test your app on the different IE-versions, you can download and install Microsoft Virtual PC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6

...and download VHD-files with Windows installations with the different browsers included: http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '09 at 15:01

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Spoon provides a good list of virtualized browsers, including IE 6, 7 and 8.

http://spoon.net/browsers/

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I have noticed odd behaviour previously with this method - rendering engines not behaving like the original counterparts. – Dmitri Farkov Jun 16 '10 at 19:53
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Spoon WAS brilliant... Until Microsoft pulled the plug on it. http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?p=8204 – GeekyMonkey Nov 30 '10 at 12:03
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You can get IE6,7,8,9 from Spoon.net (March 2012, UK) - but only for 2 minutes use every 24 hours unless you pay US$8/month. Not a terrible price for a professional tool, but the idea of *anyone* receiving money in exchange for IE6 makes me feel ill... Also I don't know of any way to make it work with my-debugbar.com's IE debug bar. – user56reinstatemonica8 Mar 04 '12 at 12:55

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 19 '11 at 08:31

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You're out of luck if you're trying to run them all reliably in one VM. There are several products out there, but none are perfect (they work mostly through DLL hacks).

My recommendation would be to create multiple VMs in VMware and install a different version of Internet Explorer on each. That way you get the true, full experience.

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I can create multiple snapshots but where do I get the IE installers? – Jun 30 '09 at 21:20
@dougoftheabaci http://browsers.evolt.org/ – Dan Rosenstark May 18 '10 at 14:00
Checking if this is true :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2859010 – Dan Rosenstark May 18 '10 at 16:14

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 21:01

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Test in IE 6, 7, 8 and about 50 other browsers on multiple platforms for free, with no downloads or virtual machines required: http://browsershots.org/

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its quite rare that screenshots alone will provide the kind of insight required for a javascript heavy app. – robjmills Sep 29 '09 at 20:17
@seengee: I don't think the OP even mentioned JS... – mpen Sep 30 '09 at 00:59
These tests are often misconfigured, you can only check, that it works/not works for the whole page. It is impossible to test multiple times, because 1 page shots takes hours to complete. – deejayy Nov 09 '11 at 09:27
Still a handy service if you don't have time to meticulously fire up 30 different VMs, you can at least give it a look over and find problem areas. – mpen Nov 09 '11 at 18:24

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 30 '09 at 22:31

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Clone your VMWare virtual machine, and selectively upgrade the clones.

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 07 '10 at 01:56

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I love this one, best one I've used so far:

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

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Last updated in 2006 ... – deejayy Nov 09 '11 at 09:25
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The problem with MultipleIE is that it doesn't work on Win 64bit (Vista/7/8). I used it while on XP and it worked great. – Ricardo Zea Mar 28 '13 at 15:39

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 21:00

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http://www.xenocode.com/

I started looking at this the other day. It seemed to work ok in my very limited testing.

answered Jun 30 '09 at 21:00

always been a bit uncertain about this, anyone had any experience with it? – robjmills Sep 29 '09 at 20:17
On one hand it's the quickest testing method, and it can be launched from any browser almost. At the same time.... I have noticed odd behaviour previously with this method - rendering engines not behaving like the original counterparts. Also, there is also the privacy issue of how much of your data the company providing the service can see. – Dmitri Farkov Jun 16 '10 at 19:54
Has now become Spoon, which was good, but now doesn't support IE. – Simon East Oct 12 '11 at 01:28

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Jan 19 '11 at 08:33

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For testing purposes I've used the browsers archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/ . The Internet Explorer 6 standalone version work on Windows XP; it does't work on Windows Vista.

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What is the specific problem with this answer? I hate it when people downvote and don't comment. Do the browsers at that link not work? Are they full of malware? Or are they fine, and Bo just wrote his original answer unclearly? I wish people would respect the community and share what they know... – user56reinstatemonica8 Mar 01 '12 at 15:19
I don't know if this is the reason, but I just went to this site as I'm looking for standalones myself, and they appear to only have IE6, which means this wouldn't answer the question asked. (But then again, the tredosoft link above appears to have the same problem, so who knows.) – spinn Jan 17 '13 at 19:41

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