[Byteman]

Hi, Those of you who use Firefox and realize that many things that required Internet Explorer won't work in Firefox browser have something new to play with....IE Tab extension is out, and it works very well. It allows pages that would not work in Firefox to use IE functions within Firefox now! I've installed this extension on win98SE....and just done an online antivirus scan at the Kaspersky Online site with IE Tab and it works great. I have also just watched an MSN.com video in Firefox, something that the video site would not open before, telling me that it required Windows Media Player 10, and since it's win98SE, I cant use WMP 10....but, now I can play MSN Videos in Firefox!

The BitDefender online scanner also works with IE Tab, but I have not been able to load the Panda online scan....this one is also not working tonight with IE 6, so I think it's just the Panda site that is causing it, will report on whether I can load Panda online if I get it tow work with IE tab.

You can read about how to get and use IE Tab here...I found the info first at Lockergnome.com> Windows Fanatic's pages here:

http://channels.lockergnome.com/wind...ee_files.phtml

And here is the PC World page about IE Tab>

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...3,tk,lg,00.asp

There's a download link to this page>

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...fo.php?id=1419

And, here you can read more and see screenshots of IE Tab:

If you need some instructions.
Please visit our official website on http://ietab.mozdev.org

You simply right click, Save Target As, or download the IE Tab file...and drag and drop it into an open Firefox window to install this extension.... when you close and reopen Firefox, it's ready to go....
XP users should see the IE Tab icon on the toolbar, on my win98 a right click on a link that you used Internet Explorer for will give you the option to "Open in an IE Tab" and the page should then open within Firefox by using the IE Tab feature! It's simply great, and will help users that cannot get IE working at some times...I've also just done the latest Windows Updates, got a cumulative security update installed using Firefox and IE Tab....
I work a lot with folks with malware infections, and who cannot get anything to work with Internet Explorer, and this extension for Firefox may allow those people to get online scans for malware, updates etc they otherwise could not even start, let alone complete...
I haven't had a chance to test on an infected machine with a broken IE browser yet but should very soon, and will report how if it works. Or, if someone has done it, feel free to leave a report here...

[rexgrant]

Thanks Byteman
I just checked it out with Microsoft updates previous to this patch ,would only work with IE
Many Thanks for the Information.
Best regards
Rex

[Byteman]

Hi rexgrant, Windows Update has been able to work under Firefox browser through the use of a piece of software before, but, this IE Tab extension allows Firefox to use Internet Explorer within itself...I don't pretend to understand all the how's and why's but it sure is a great improvement!
And the help provided by allowing some online antimalware scanners to work with Firefox through IE Tab is going to please a lot of infected computer users. We do need to see if a machine badly messed up will be able to do this, I have not been able to try it out yet, but I am sure we will be hearing soon one way or the other.

[rexgrant]

[QUOTE=Byteman]Hi rexgrant, Windows Update has been able to work under Firefox browser through the use of a piece of software before, but, this IE Tab extension allows Firefox to use Internet Explorer within itself...
Hi again Byteman
No it is not Windows update I could not use on firefox,that worked ok.It is the microsoft update which includes windows update plus updates for office, well all microsoft products on your system,I used to have to make IE my web browser before I could use it.So thanks again.
Regards.
Rex

[Byteman]

Hi rexgrant- I see, you are posting about Microsoft Updates, glad they are working for you. Thanks!

[Byteman]

Originally Posted by Byteman

The BitDefender online scanner also works with IE Tab, but I have not been able to load the Panda online scan....this one is also not working tonight with IE 6, so I think it's just the Panda site that is causing it, will report on whether I can load Panda online if I get it tow work with IE tab.

In XP Home on my HP machine, I just installed IE Tab, and after closing Firefox and re-opening it twice, I was able to run a full Panda online scan, using Firefox and IE Tab! But, not on my win98SE machine!

[flavallee]

Although I'm a die-hard Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 user, I recently had to install Firefox 1.5.0.4 in my computers because the website for the company that my wife works for requires using that browser to log in. The very first extension that I installed was IE Tab 1.09. If I browse to a website that requires Internet Explorer, making use of the IE Tab extension does the trick.

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[KMFDMputer]

Maybe a funny question, but does this IE tab in any way shape or form open a Firefox user to vulnerabilities that are inherent to IE?

[Byteman]

Hi KMFDMputer, To be fair, I would have to say there probably will be exploits built that can take advantage of this extension, what they infect I can't say.... Using anything is taking some risk these days.
Maybe the geniuses will leave it alone, since it allows non-Microsoft devotees to use an IE Tab for those occaisions when "they just have to use IE". I looked through the forum at Mozilla here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=408112 and read through all the 9 or so pages....there was mention of only one security issue, and a filter change given to close it.

Again, I would say there is of course some risk, but what would be infected is hard to say. It's running an embedded Internet Explorer, not your copy....and, there is little control over security settings in an embedded copy.\, or so it says at some of those Moz forum posts in my link above. Perhaps, it would be much safer than a normal fully functional IE?

[KMFDMputer]

Thanks for the reply. I'll think I'll not introduce anything IE into Firefox in that case.

[firestormer]

Great previously i was using IE link which allowed me to right click on a link to open it in IE

[prakash2119]

thanks..will check it out......

[tramaco]

This may be the wrong thread, but two out of three applies here: Firefox and Tabs.

I used Netscape since 1995 but recently switched to Firefox to my great delight. However, no matter how I choose the "Tabs" in Firefox Tools, I cannot get Firefox to do what I want.

What I want is no matter where the new window comes from (another application, or a link in the current window, or a link from anywhere) I want that new window's tab to be shown on a new tab in the window that is currently displayed. If I want to display a new window with a new web page, I shall simply open a new Firefox browser.

So, I could conceivably have 15 or more tabs in the current window and even be the only Firefox browser actually opened. If I want to close any tab, then I right click and close the tab or click the red and white X if it is the right-most tab that I want to close. If I want to close ALL the tabs, I have selected the correct choice in Tools to be able to do it with one click on the close button.

[Neomaxi]

I used to use Firefox but have now gone back to IE on the new ver 7.
No problems as yet.

Giving it a go for now but will probably go back to Firefox.

Make sure you get the firefox Update Notifier, then ya can make sure you get all the updates without having to check every day.

MarkyB

[Radius]

Originally Posted by Neomaxi

I used to use Firefox but have now gone back to IE on the new ver 7.
No problems as yet.

Giving it a go for now but will probably go back to Firefox.

Make sure you get the firefox Update Notifier, then ya can make sure you get all the updates without having to check every day.

MarkyB

FireFox has come out with it's 2.0 version. I bet if you swtiched back to FireFox you will never go back to IE