Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer for Macintosh, Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition, Internet Explorer:mac or IE:mac) was a proprietary The term proprietary software is often used to mean computer software which is neither free nor open source . Terminology for forms of software licensing is not fully standardized and can be controversial. A literal meaning of "proprietary" in relation to software is that it has a copyright owner who can exercise control over what users web browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to developed by Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, for the Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface platform. Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows Windows Internet Explorer , is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. It has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and IE6. Later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the Tasman Tasman is the name of a layout engine developed by Microsoft, introduced with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5, a new feature in the development of Internet Explorer for Mac . Tasman was an attempt to improve support for web standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. At the time of its release, Tasman was seen as the layout engine A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes marked up content and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer. A layout engine is typically used for web browsers, e-mail clients,.

As a result of the five-year agreement between Apple Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite and Microsoft in 1997, it was the default browser on Mac OS Mac OS is the trademark-protected name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. The original form of what Apple would later name the "Mac OS" was the and Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, Mac OS X has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 198 from 1998 until it was replaced by Apple's own Safari Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther." Safari is also the native browser for the iPhone OS. A web browser in 2003.

On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was released on July 11, 2003. The browser was not included in default installation of Mac OS X v10.4 Mac OS X Tiger is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Tiger was released to the public on 29 April 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3), which had been released 18 months earlier. Tiger was succeeded by Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) on 26 "Tiger" which was released on April 29, 2005. Microsoft discontinued support for the product on December 31, 2005 and removed the application from their Macintosh downloads site on January 31, 2006. Microsoft recommends "that users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther." Safari is also the native browser for the iPhone OS. A."[1]

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History

Versions of Internet Explorer for Macintosh were released starting with version 2 in 1996, to version 5 which received its last patch in 2003. IE versions for Mac typically lagged several months to a year behind Windows versions, but included some unique developments including its own layout engine Tasman Tasman is the name of a layout engine developed by Microsoft, introduced with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5, a new feature in the development of Internet Explorer for Mac . Tasman was an attempt to improve support for web standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. At the time of its release, Tasman was seen as the.

Internet Explorer 2.0 for Macintosh

The first version of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh operating system was a beta version of Internet Explorer 2.0 for Macintosh, released on January 23, 1996 as a free download from Microsoft's website. This first version was based on the Spyglass Mosaic Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened up the Web to the general public. Mosaic was web browser licensed from Spyglass Spyglass, Inc. , was an Internet software company based in Champaign, Illinois. The company, founded in 1990, was an offshoot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and created to commercialize and support technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Prominent among these was the Mosaic browser, of which. Available for both 68k The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor . Introduced in 1979 with HMOS technology as the first member of the successful 32-bit m68k family of microprocessors, it is generally software forward compatible with the rest of the line despite being limited to a 16-bit wide external bus and PPC PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been renamed Power ISA but lives on as a legacy trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture based processors based Macs running System 7.0.1 System 7 is a single-user graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers. It was introduced on May 13, 1991 by Apple Computer. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997. Features added with the System 7 release included virtual memory, personal file or later, it supported the embedding of a number of multimedia formats into web pages, including AVI Audio Video Interleave, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple and QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. It is available for Mac OS classic , Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The latest version is QuickTime X (10.0) and is currently only formatted video and AIFF Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer and WAV WAVE or WAV, short for Waveform Audio File Format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively. It is the formatted audio. The final version was released three months later on April 23. Version 2.1 released in August of the same year, was mostly aimed at fixed bugs and improving stability, but also added a few features such as support for the NPAPI Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface is a cross-platform plugin architecture used by many web browsers (the first version of Internet Explorer on any platform to do so) and support for QuickTime VR QuickTime VR (also known as QTVR) is a type of image file format supported by Apple's QuickTime. It allows the creation and viewing of photographically captured panoramas and the exploration of objects through images taken at multiple viewing angles. It functions as a plugin for the standalone QuickTime Player, as well as working as a plugin for. AOL AOL Inc. , formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as "Aol.", is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions 3.0 for Macintosh used the IE 2.1 rendering engine in its built-in web browser.

Internet Explorer 3.0 for Macintosh

On November 5, 1996 Microsoft announced the release of a beta version of Internet Explorer version 3.0 for Macintosh[2]. This release added support for HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms version 3.2, Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL, Java applets A Java applet is an applet delivered to the users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets. Java applets were introduced in the first version of the Java language in 1995. Java applets are usually written in the Java and ActiveX Component Object Model is a binary-interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range of programming languages. The term COM is often used in the Microsoft software development industry as an umbrella term that encompasses the OLE, controls. The final version, made available on January 8, 1997, also added support for the SSL Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide security for communications over networks such as the Internet. TLS and SSL encrypt the segments of network connections at the Transport Layer end-to-end and NTLM NTLM (not to be confused with LAN Manager) is a Microsoft authentication protocol. MS-CHAP is similar and is used for authentication with Microsoft remote access protocols. It is the successor of LANMAN (Microsoft LAN Manager), an older Microsoft authentication protocol, and attempted to be backwards compatible with LANMAN. NTLM was followed by security protocols and the PICS and RSACi rating systems that can be used to control access to websites based on content ratings[3]. A problem with an operating system extension used in the Mac OS, called CFM68K Runtime Enabler, led to a delay in the release of the version 3.0 for Macs based on the 68k The Motorola 680x0/m68k/68k/68K is a family of 32-bit CISC microprocessors. During the 1980s and early 1990s, they were popular in personal computers and workstations and were the primary competitors of Intel's x86 microprocessors. They were most well-known as the processors powering the early Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair QL, line of processors. Four months later on May 14, Microsoft released version 3.01 which included a version for 68k-based machines[4]. This version also included features from the Windows version of Internet Explorer 4.0 such as AutoComplete Autocomplete is a feature provided by many web browsers, e-mail programs, search engine interfaces, source code editors, database query tools, word processors, and command line interpreters. Autocomplete involves the program predicting a word or phrase that the user wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely. This feature and Monitoring Favorites that notified users when sites in their Favorites list have been updated. It also included support for JavaScript JavaScript is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It can be characterized as a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is also considered a functional and introduced a Download Manager and a Cookie A cookie, also known as a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a text string stored by a user's web browser. A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information, which may be encrypted for information privacy and data security purposes Manager.

Internet Explorer 4.0 for Macintosh

At the 1997 Macworld Expo Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo is a tradeshow with conference tracks dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform. It is held annually in the United States, usually during the second week of January. Originally Macworld Expo, the gathering dates back to 1985 in Boston Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact. Boston city proper had a 2008 estimated population of 620,5, on August 6, Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney and Bill Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III, KBE is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career announced a partnership between Microsoft and Apple. Amongst other things, Apple agreed to bundle Internet Explorer with future versions of the Mac OS and make it the default browser instead of Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator and Netscape are the names for the proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s, the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was partly due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web.

Five months later on January 6, 1998, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the, Microsoft announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer version 4.0 for Macintosh. Version 4 included support for offline browsing The terms "online" and "offline" have specific meanings in regards to computer technology and telecommunications. In general, "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state. In common usage, "online" often refers to the Internet or the World Wide Web, Dynamic HTML Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language , a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model, a new faster Java virtual machine A Java Virtual Machine enables a set of computer software programs and data structures to use a virtual machine model for the execution of other computer programs and scripts. The model used by a JVM accepts a form of computer intermediate language commonly referred to as Java bytecode. This language conceptually represents the instruction set of and Security Zones that allow users or administrators to limit access to certain types of web content depending on which zone (for example Intranet or Internet) the content was coming from. The most publicized feature of Internet Explorer 4.0 was support for Microsoft's Active Channel technology, which was intended to deliver regularly updated content that users could personally tailor to their interests. However Active Channel failed to reach a wide audience.

At the same event, Apple announced the release of Mac OS 8.1 Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7, some six years previously. It puts more emphasis on color than previous operating systems. Released over a series of updates, Mac OS 8 was an effort to integrate many of the. This was the first version of the Macintosh operating system to bundle Internet Explorer as its default browser per the agreement with Microsoft; however, version 4.0 was not ready in time to be included so version 3.01 was bundled on the CDs.

At the following year's San Francisco Macworld Expo on January 9, 1999, Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 4.5 Macintosh Edition[5]. This new version, which dropped 68K processor support, introduced Form AutoFill, Print Preview, the Page Holder pane which let a user hold a page of links on one side of the screen that opened pages in the right hand and support for Mac OS technology like Sherlock Sherlock, named after Sherlock Holmes, was a file and web search tool created by Apple Inc. for the Mac OS, introduced with Mac OS 8.5 as an extension of the Mac OS Finder's file searching capabilities. Like its predecessor, it can search for local files and file contents, which it does using the same basic indexing code and search logic found in.

Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition

Again a year later on January 5, 2000, Microsoft announced a new version of Internet Explorer at the San Francisco Macworld Expo, Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition which was released two months later on March 27, 2000. The Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal version of Internet Explorer 5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is a graphical web browser released in March 1999 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but initially with versions available for Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX. (See also Internet Explorer for Mac or for Unix.) had been released a year earlier, but used the Trident layout engine. The Macintosh Edition introduced a new rendering engine called Tasman that was designed to be more compliant with emerging W3C The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3) standards such as HTML 4.0, CSS Level 1, DOM Level 1, and ECMAScript. It also introduced a number of features that were later added to other browsers such as complete support for the PNG image standard (which previous versions did not support at all), DOCTYPE switching, Text Zoom and XML source view. It also included an Auction Manager for tracking auctions in sites like eBay and an Internet Scrapbook to allow users to quickly and easily store and organize web content (for example an image or a piece of selected text). Preview releases of the browser included a feature called the MediaBar which integrated mp3 and internet radio playback, but this feature was dropped from the final version. The initial release was just for Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, however two months after that release on May 15 a Mac OS X version was released, bundled with the Mac OS X DP4 release handed out to developers at the 2000 Worldwide Developers Conference. The Mac OS X Public Beta included another preview of the Mac OS X version of IE[6][7]. The release of Mac OS X v10.0 on March 24, 2001 included yet another preview of the Mac OS X version of IE 5. This was updated later, and the release of Mac OS X v10.1 on September 25, 2001 included the final version of Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac OS X. IE 5.1 for Mac OS 8 and 9 was released on December 18, 2001.

According to Jorg Brown, one of the IE for Mac developers at Microsoft, after version 5 most of the team that produced IE for Mac were moved to another project. IE for Mac was relegated to something they were expected to work on in their "spare time".[8]

On June 17, 2002 Microsoft announced the release of version 5.2 (the first Mac OS X-only release) which included a few performance and security fixes and support for Mac OS X features likes Quartz text smoothing.

During 2002 Microsoft reassigned developers to develop version 6 of Internet Explorer for Mac, intended to be used as the base for a new product. MSN for Mac OS X would be a subscription-only browser that worked with the online MSN service, incorporate features like an address book, junk mail filters and an MSN Messenger client. However after hearing that Apple had started development of their own browser, they canceled the standalone browser development and concentrated on the MSN browser, which was released on May 15, 2003.

On June 13, 2003, PC Pro reported that Macintosh Business Unit general manager Roz Ho had confirmed that aside from updates to fix security problems, there would be no new versions of Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Three days later on June 16, Microsoft released the final version for Mac OS X, version 5.2.3 and a month later on July 11, they released the final version for Mac OS 8 and 9, version 5.1.7. The last versions of Internet Explorer for Mac had a distinguishing blue logo that was the base for the logo used in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows (The Windows one just had a lighter blue, and it was less 3-D).

Internet Explorer 5 for Mac distinguishing features

These are features found in Internet Explorer for Mac, which were not found in common contemporary browsers (with the possible exception of Internet Explorer for Windows). Some are still not features in many browsers.

Other features

These are features found in Internet Explorer for Mac and some other of its contemporaries.

Easter Egg

Easter egg in IE for Mac 5

Acid1 is included as an offline Easter egg, accessible by typing 'about: tasman', in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS with the text replaced by the names of the developers.[9]

Version summary

Internet Explorer for Mac Version Overview
Mac OS 7, 8, 9 on 68k and PPC
Version Date Notes Layout engine
Version 2.0 April 23, 1996
Version 2.1 August 1996
Version 3.0 January 8, 1997 PPC only initially; 128-bit SGC encryption
Version 3.01 May 14, 1997 Included with Mac OS 8; download manager
Version 4.0 January 6, 1998 Included with Mac OS 8
Version 4.5 January 5, 1999
Version 5.0 March 27, 2000 Tasman v0
Version 5.1 December 18, 2001 Tasman v0.1
Version 5.1.4 April 16, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.1.5 July 5, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.1.6 September 25, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.1.7 July 2003 Tasman
Mac OS X on PPC
Version Date Notes Layout engine
Version 5 May 15, 2000 released with Mac OS X DP4 Tasman v0
Version 5.1.1 May 23, 2001 Tasman v0.1
Version 5.1.2 September 25, 2001 released with Mac OS X 10.1 Tasman
Version 5.1.3 October 23, 2001 released in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-053 Tasman
Version 5.2 June 17, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.2.1 July 5, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.2.2 September 25, 2002 Tasman
Version 5.2.3 June 16, 2003 final version Tasman v0.9

References

  1. ^ "INTERNET EXPLORER 5 FOR MAC". Microsoft. October 25, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20080106181017/http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  2. ^ Microsoft (1996-11-05). "Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta Software Now Available for Macintosh Users". Press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/nov96/macbtapr.mspx. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  3. ^ Microsoft (1997-01-08). "Microsoft Ships Final Release of Internet Explorer 3.0 for Macintosh With Just-in-Time Java Compiler and Native ActiveX Support". Press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/jan97/ie3macpr.mspx. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  4. ^ Microsoft (1997-05-14). "Microsoft Announces New Microsoft Internet Explorer for Macintosh; Includes Version 4.0 Features". Press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/May97/ie4macpr.mspx. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  5. ^ Microsoft (1999-01-05). "Renewed Spirit of Cooperation Between Microsoft and Apple Benefits Mac Customers". Press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/01-05apple.mspx. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  6. ^ Apple Inc. (2000-05-15). "Apple Releases Mac OS X Developer Preview 4 with Final API Specs". Press release. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/may/15macosx.html. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  7. ^ Microsoft (2000-05-15). "Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer for Mac OS X". Press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/05-15apple.mspx. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  8. ^ "Microsoft Ends IE for Mac". Slashdot. 2005-12-18. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171546&cid=14288661. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  9. ^ Internet Explorer Easter Egg - IE5 Mac Team, The Easter Egg Archive, 2000-06-19, http://www.eeggs.com/items/14448.html

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Is it possible to run internet explorer on a mac?
Q. I have a program that cannot be run through safari, so i am having to borrow a pc when i need to use it. Is it possible to download internet explorer for mac, and are there any problems this might cause? Would internet explorer completely replace safari, or would i have access to both? Please help.
Asked by LSW - Sat Aug 1 15:53:27 2009 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Yes! But the last version was discontinued in 2003. So even if you do get the software, it is ages old. The following are your options Since you did not mention what version of mac you are using and if it is running on intel or powerPC, I am unable to suggest directly * If you are using a newer version of mac that runs on intel platform, you can use boot camp and install windows to it. (Expensive if you buy but your website will work 100%) * If you can run parallels, you can install windows in a virtualized mode. (Again expensive but website will work 100%) * Install fire fox in mac if you have OS X or higher. install an addon called as IE tab which embeds Internet Explorer rendering engine in Fire Fox. (FREE but check to make sure… [cont.]
Answered by lvf1dipu - Sat Aug 1 15:57:20 2009

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