IE Tab addon for firefox

DJMK4

DJMK4

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Just a quick heads up for people who didnt know this existed.

I have recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 with IE8 and because im developing a website at the moment I wanted a good way to check between Firefox & IE to see if everything was aligning correctly.

I didnt know this existed but its an addon for firefox which installs an IE tab in your firefox browser so you can easily switch between the two.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Pretty useful :)

Some of you might already know about this, but there are others that dont, including me until I just downloaded it
 
Here are a couple more for you in case you haven't heard of them)

- Firebug (I don't know how I ever managed without this)
- Web Developer (I hide the toolbar and just use the right click context menu as I use it mainly for testing resolutions and disabling js and/or css.)
- Screengrab (great for screenshots, can grab visible portion, or the whole page)


IETester. (This isn't a plugin, but it's a wonderful little app for testing in other versions of IE)
 
Firebug is amazing. I only discovered it last year... now, when I'm doing web development without it, I feel like I'm coding with one arm tied behind my back.
 
Out of interest, how are people cross browser checking these days? I'm on a mac and have to use 2 virtual machines... one with windows 7 (IE8) and one with XP with IE7 and MultipleIE to check 6...

All in all, its a right ball-ache... is there a better way to do things?
 
brilliant i'll have to give that a go thanks very much :)

if that worked on mac it would be out-of-this-world useful but hey thats still a good step up in usability to what i'm doing now :)
 
Yeah, you'll still Windows and a Mac to do full proper testing, but at least IETester will mean you only need one Windows install via bootcamp or whatever.
 
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