noob browser question....

So I've been playing around with my new Mac mini and I'm loving it. I've been in the computer dark ages for quite a few years now and I'm loving the light! (I just upgraded from widows98se :Blushing I'm constently finding new cool things. I've been playing with Safari which I like but it locks up with gmail for me so I down loaded Camino. It's nice too and I down loaded Firefox too so I could compare how they all run. For my personal use I will eventually pick one but I have some work issues. I have some work sites that work only allows access on InternetExplorer5 or 6..... will IE6 work on the mac? I'm at work right now so I can't try it out for myself. I still have the old 98 HP downstairs so I can still access my work pages on that if I have to but I'd much rather use my mac. Maybe in bootcamp on Leopard when it comes out? (I'm getting the $9.95 uptodate!! WOOT). Any sage advice is welcome

I'm almost certain that IE6 for Mac isn't available for download anymore. I thought there was a plug-in you could download for Firefox.... I'm drawing a blank for that one, sorry. Perhaps someone else has some advise.

Like rogair said, Internet Explorer is no longer available on the Mac.

Thanks for the info guys. I guess I'll have to keep the old 98 brick on the desk downstairs collecting dust. LOL

I haven't looked for it on the mac yet but on the pc for firefox you can download the addon called ie tab...

rogair said:

I'm almost certain that IE6 for Mac isn't available for download anymore. I thought there was a plug-in you could download for Firefox.... I'm drawing a blank for that one, sorry. Perhaps someone else has some advise.

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I guess it doesn't matter mac or pc... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

rogair said:

I'm almost certain that IE6 for Mac isn't available for download anymore. I thought there was a plug-in you could download for Firefox.... I'm drawing a blank for that one, sorry. Perhaps someone else has some advise.

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Isn't IE Tab just for Windows machines? Last I checked, it worked by utilizing the IE engine within Windows, and since OS X doesn't come with IE, you can't use the IE Tab extension.

Kash said:

Isn't IE Tab just for Windows machines? Last I checked, it worked by utilizing the IE engine within Windows, and since OS X doesn't come with IE, you can't use the IE Tab extension.

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Yup. IE Tab is not available for OSX

Bootcamp, Fusion, or Parallels (maybe Codeweaver too) is your only option for getting IE on the Mac. MS stopped releasing an IE for Mac in version 5.

If some sites say IE 6 only you can get around it and they usually work

Google Tinkertool and download it (free)

There is an option in the Safari tab to activate safari's hidden debug menu, activate it.

Start up safai and you will have an extra menu, one of which you can emulate different browsers - select windowsIE6 (or something like that?) and sites will be told by safari that it is IE6 - kind of lying to the website but it works

Changing the browser agent does work on some sites as stated above. It really just depends on what the site is using and why it only works in IE. At work there are several internal sites and no matter what agent you send to it, it will only work in IE. It definitely can't hurt to try though.

Cool louishen I'll have to give that debug menu a try! I hope it works. Hard to say... corporate security are pretty gestapo-ish lately, I just hope they aren't to computer savie. I don't want to do anything I'm not suppose to I just want to have the access I had before.