Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

For a couple of Mac based designers who continually need to check IE6 and 7 simultaneously, this is a godsend for us.

To Tredosoft, Joe Maddalone and Manfred Staudinger, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

To Microsoft, boo-sucks to you.

I just tried to download the installer (I have XP) and got the message:

"Windows cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them"

What's that all about?

I tried it out with W2K SP2 and all the IE 5, 5.5 and 6 are working :-) Thank you!

Thank you so much for this. It's a blessing! :)

Thanks, great package. I used it once before but it seems microsoft messed up again and IE6 isn't vista-compatible. Instead of coming up with something practical, some idiot got the idea "hey, why don't we make an image of WinXP and IE6 for Virtual PC!" and the others must've been like "wow, that's the best idea since, like, moving from text-based to graphical user interface!1"

I don't know if I should think of them as retards or just incompetent. If they were retards, I wouldn't be able to mock them witch clear consience, since this would be the best they could do at any point, so I'll just think that they are a bunch of idiots.

IE5.5/IE6 standalone won't work if you have SP2 installed.

This is indeed an incredible job you guys have done to accomplish this, thanks!

I can still find some issues with the IE6 standalone version though (using IE7 as standard install), as it seems it doesn't completely act like IE6 standard install. That makes me think that if we can't trust it IS exactly the same IE6 we are dealing with, don't we have just another IE version to develop for (even if it´s just us using it)?

I'm afraid I can't really rely on it yet since it acts differently in some cases, although I don't know why. The old stuff like cookies/sessions, AlphaImageLoader support works fine for me, also does conditional comments according to Manfred Staudinger's testpage.

BUT, I've noticed one of the Eolas workarounds I use on a site doesn't work as they used to prior to the standalone install, namely this one. I know I can use others that work (like SWFObject), but that doesn't really help me, since I want to be sure I am dealing with the same old explorer.

Another thing I've noticed is that I get errors when loading www.google.com (Object doesn´t support this property or method). This and saul11's comment, makes me think the DOM or JavaScript is messed up in some way.

Well, even if can't yet trust this new version of explorer (it is to me) I will give it a try, but I will still need to rely on a separate machine to do the final testing, which is a shame since we are so close :)

I apology if this sounded like a complain, I just wanted to share some of my experience with using multiple installs. Cheers

/Swexican

I'm running XP pro, and had IE7 already installed.

I installed the package, but if I go to the 'about' box, it reports:
Version: 7.0.5730.11

...in all versions.

Did I miss something?

Within 15 minutes of installing multiple IEs (especially IE6 in my case) I solved a problem that would have involved up to 5 gallons of gas and countless hours of travel retrying the same solutions on a client's (out-of-date) computer. I thank you very much. I'm sure I shall get much use from this little gem in the future!

I recently installed Multiple IEs on Windows XP Professional running inside Virtual PC and it appears to have worked flawlessly. Thank you for taking the time to put together this wonderful tool!

Hi,

thanks for this installer. However, I have a problem with IE 6. Infact, I use it with AJAX with a web application builded in ASP.NET 2.0.
Now I have this error : "... the status error from the server is: 12019"
This error don't happen with the real IE6

Have you some idea?
Thanks,
Cristian

Hi

I want to congratulate you on this work in creating an multiple IE installer.
It works fantastically. There is no virus detected with ZoneAlarm SecuritySuite!!!

http://jroller.com/peter_pilgrim
Peter Pilgrim

it works! goooood!

downloading... thx for the great work. This will really help the web developers.

Hi Yousif,

I would like to congratulate on you creating such a usefull tool. I think if you could create a version that would run on vista you could charge at least $20 per license, you provide such a useful tool and it is obviously something ever web designer needs. Personally I would be happy to pay $20 and I'm sure nearly every other designer / developer feels the same way.

Best,

Brett

Great idea to get all IE versions into one install. Before this I used to unzip all of them to run stand alone. Keep up good work. Next task could be running multiple versions of FireFox in stand alone mode.

Hi - think this is a great tool for testing webapps - keep up the good work!

I have one question to ask, regarding apps that rely on the javascript window.open() functionality to give the user a "controlled" pop-up window. When my app does this in MultipleIEs IE6, the resulting pop-up is an IE7 window. Does anyone have a solution or workaround to get the correct (IE6) window to pop up?

Thanks
Dave

Hi,
Just noticed today that IE7 is reading the Conditional Comments set for IE6. This is new behavior. I think an automatic update installed today and I'm wondering if M$ changed something.

My IE6 reads only IE6 CCs but strange that IE7 is reading both now. I removed the version vector which was set to 6.000 again.

Has any one else noticed this behavior in the last few days?

Doesnt work with Vista :(

Anyone solution to get iE6 running on Vista?

Thank you. It had become a pain fixing sites for IE 6.0 ever since I upgraded to 7.0. Also find joy seeing how my new pages look in IE 3.0, which was the first browser I ever made websites on.

IE 6 - 6.00.2800.1106 Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows XP SP1) --> NOTE! This is SP1
IE 5.5 - 5.51.4807.2300
IE 5 - 5.0.3314.2100
IE 4 - 4.72.3110.0
IE 3 - 3.0.0.1152

If we can get a build of this that includes IE 6.00.2900 (SP2) that would be awesome!

Hello,
I have read the thread on the cookies, i have installed the latest , made sure i had the correct DLL but still get the "Cookies are disabled" message

Has anyone gotten it to work with the IE6 installed from Multiple IE??

FYI Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

thanks a lot!! this is wanderfull and very easy to install

I really appreciate the effort that has gone into this - THANKS! Your installer even creates shortcuts EXACTLY as I would have set them up. makes my life as a web developer so much easier :)

It really begs the question though, why couldn't Microsoft themselves provide something like this, instead of asking people to use virtualization instead?

Thanks again!

Document.ExecCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);

Hi,

Please could this IE6 hotfix be added into the MultipleIEs?

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;823727&spid=2073&sid=global

It's primary benefit is to prevent image flickers due to repeated server calls, and is a part of IE6 SP2, so would aid true testing.

try {
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
} catch(err) {}

Thanks.

Well done! Many thanks!
Regards, flipflip

test

Fehler:
Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt "AssocISDangerous" wurde in der DLL "SHLWAPI.dll" nicht gefunden

with ie3 ie4 ie6.

ie4: a big script problem

ie3: looks like browsing on my old cell phone!!

ie6: [press ok to load the content of ...] and i cannot set the privacy level :(

ie5.01 and ie5.5: they r cool as far as i know ....

I'd just try it, but I don't want a failed install to screw my system.

Man, thanks a lot for the multiple IEs! I installed one other standalone verion of IE6 some months ago which can't access session used websites (after a login). Now i can work a lot better without having my notebook beside the desktop everytime for testing IE7 and 6 :-)

Great work!

Best
joe

This is a lifesaver today!

I just installed multipleies. Thank you for a way to test my sites with the older versions of IE.

The favorites came loaded with my favorites, but when I click on a favorite, my printer box shows up. If I click print, the page I wanted to view will print from my printer. Typing the address directly the address bar does work, and selecting the address from the address bar drop down will also work.

Is there a setting I can adjust to get the IE6 favorites to work?

I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 pt-BR. Some bugs:

IE 5.01 and 5.5: Clicking on "Favorites" menu crashes IE (module: shell32.dll). The Favorites pane works.
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5946/20071204131115ku1.png

IE 6 & IE 3: While loading pages with excess of JavaScript, IE crashes.

IE 3: If you start two instances, the second won't start sometimes (insufficient memory).

You make my life worth living and my job worth doing! ♪

Multiple IE can't distinguish its version from the main browser.

If u have IE7 installed as the main browser ... and if you have in your code it wont run even if you're running on IE6 (in Multiple IE)

Anybody have any trouble with conditional comments displaying with the Multiple IE pak, specifically IE 6?

Thanks so much for your idea. Is a very good tool. Again thanks!

IE3 just crashes on me at startup. It's attempting to go to msn.com as its homepage, gets a bunch of script errors, and then breaks. Not sure what/how to edit it so it'll try to go to Google or some other relatively safe page at startup, as I can't get it to stay open long enough to get to an options menu. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Hi everybody.

I'm trying to use this filter on IE 5.x/6 with no luck. The code tested is:


html>body
{
background: url('transparentBackground.png');
}


The image used in the code above is a transparent PNG image, 800 x 600 pixels wide. Currently IE7 support transparent PNG backgrounds, but IE6 and below doesn't. Then, why they behave like this? Is MultipleIE's different IE versions using "main IE motor" (in my case, IE7)?.

If this is the reason, can i tweak it to have them behave like it supposed to?

Thanks and congrats. This is a very handy prog.

Regards from Chile, Sudamerica.
Gonzalo Romero Atton.-

Thanks for this, is a well good download!!

To the author: Thanks for this wonderful program!

1. Extremely slow
2. It looks like AJAX support is broken

Trying to print from Standalone IE6. Set the page as a Favorite, and then clicked on the Favorite to print the document. However, when it prints, it seems to reload the page but without cookies. So the printed document doesn't match what's on the screen.

thank you. this is really really helpful!

im using win2k pro, and went to install this (i have sp3 of win2k and it comes with 5.0). so i goto install 5.5 and 6.0, and it goes to the end and says this: Unable to execute file: REG. CreateProcess failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified.

okay everything works but every website i go to use ie 4.0 on gives me infinite script errors that i have to click yes to every one of them. any fixes for this would be appreciated. i love the ie4 explorer icon that spins the world.

despite the page indicating a fix was made for IE6 cookies, this is not working, at least, not with a general cookie-detection script. this script works in IE 5.5 and 7, but not 6 (the multiple IE versions).

function browserSupportsCookies()
{
var tmpcookie = new Date();
var chkcookie = (tmpcookie.getTime() + '');
document.cookie = "chkcookie=" + chkcookie + "; path=/";
alert(! (document.cookie.indexOf(chkcookie,0) < 0));
}