| Great Firefox Extension: IE Tab |
| Saturday, June 24 2006 |
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One of the new guys on our team showed me a slick extension for Firefox: IE Tab. If you're familiar with the IE View extension, IE Tab is basically the next logical step. IE Tab allows you to view web sites best viewed with IE right within its own Firefox tab (no more need to use the "View This Page in IE" function from the IE View extension). It does this by loading the IE rendering engine into Firefox. You can even switch between the Firefox and IE rendering engines for a given site by simply right-clicking on the tab. You know it's gold when you can view your Outlook Web Access in Firefox and have it render as if it were in IE (which for all intents and purposes that *is* what is happening).
This is also extremely useful when building web apps that need to run in both Firefox and IE. Before IE Tab we'd have to run both browsers and flip back and forth, but no longer. We can view how it will render in both browsers from just within Firefox. That's tight. It even shows you which rendering engine the tab is using by displaying either the IE icon or Firefox icon in the status bar of the brower.
IE Tab basically eliminates the need for me to ever open IE again.
