How to run IE only sites from Linux

Sounds stupid ? Why would you want to run IE from Linux ? Why not use Firefox or Chrome ?

But that is not always the scenario.

Reason no 1 : Web designers who use Linux need to test their site on IE . Do not forget IE still commands majority of browser market 59.95%. Can you afford to ignore IE .

Obviously not !

Reason no 2 : Organizations who have created IE only applications 7-10 years back and are now switching to Linux platform , do not want to spend time and money porting the application to new browsers.

So when confronted with this problem what can be done ?

Solution 1 :

If you have windows as your OS then you can use this fantastic plugin IE Tab for Firefox. I have tried this and our UI was pretty heavy bit worked perfectly fine with plugin. I think as of date, the developers are not supporting this plugin so you might not be able to find upgrade for latest version of Firefox.  There are other plugins similar to IE tab in firefox which you wanna try out.

Drawback : This does not work on Linux.

Solution 2:

On linux environment, you can use

a) IE View on Linux This can be achieved by installing WINE.

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