IE Tab for Firefox

IE Tab is a Firefox extension from Taiwan that embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. This extension was derived from the famous extension IE View, but is much different. While IE View always open IE-only pages in a seperate Internet Explorer window, IE Tab can view them in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. In a nut shell when you come across a page that won't view/work correctly in Firefox you can simply click on the IE Tab button (Firefox logo in the lower right) and open the page using the actual IE browser engine but in a Firefox page tab!

Behavior:

1. Toolbar button and statusbar icon:
• Left click: Switches the rendering engine for the current page.
• Middle click: Switches the rendering engine in a new tab.
• Right click: Pops up Option dialog (for adding the URL of the current page to the "always view in IETab" list).
• [Ctrl] + Left click: Same as middle click or Open Current URL in External Application.
2. Context Menu:
• On page: Switches the rendering engine for the current page.
• On link: Switches the rendering engine in a new tab.

Source Code:

The IE Tab project is created in two parts: The XUL extension and the XPCOM plugin. The extension part is a XUL+Javascript project, and the plugin part is a VC++/MFC XPCOM project. Currently, the original project owner (PCMan) has ceased development of the plugin because he is a full time Linux user now. The project is now an open source development, so if you're interested in the plugin's source code you can get it from the Mozdev's CVS system (link above).

Other Details:

• Supported Browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
• Requirement: Microsoft Windows + Internet Explorer > 4.0
• Authors: PCMan(Hong Jen Yee), yuoo2k
• Special thanks to: Mozilla developers, BabelZilla.org translation team, MozillaZine.org members, MozTw.org members.