Is it possible to upgrade to IE 7 while keeping IE6? I do a lot of website design and application development, so I need both for testing purposes.
upgrading to IE7 while keeping IE6
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A friend of mine the other day was telling me he was using a Firefox plugin to swap out different browser engines for testing of his work.
Mike
Mike
Wow, that sounds cool, assuming it's reliable. I'll see if I can find it, but if you see him, can you ask him what plug in it is or where I can find it?
Cool, but I have to have IE7 on my machine, correct? If I upgrade to 7, will I lose IE6?
I've been looking at that today. I have an accounting app that only runs on IE6...which is retarded since IE7 upgrades happen automatically for users.
It looks like it's a large PITA. One more reason I'm going to punch Bill Gates in the face if I meet him and then thank him for his charitable work...
It looks like it's a large PITA. One more reason I'm going to punch Bill Gates in the face if I meet him and then thank him for his charitable work...
MS provides two free solutions to prevent automatic upgrading. Use a WSUS patch management server or IE7 blocker toolkit.
Damn cross browser issues !!!!!!! 
Which is great, but that doesn't help my sister in law who has a new Vista laptop.
It would have also helped if IE was less risky than screwing an HIV positive Haitian prostitute in the ass without lube after making 50 cuts on the head of your penis with a razor blade...
Thats not what you complained about though - I gave a solution to the problem you described. Dell has started offering XP again to those consumers who don't like being early adopters.
Also Microsoft grants free XP licensing to anyone who buy a Vista Business or Ultimate computer and wants to downgrade to XP (and you can still upgrade later, you just can't run both at once):
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b198-7b9d3fe15611/downgrade_chart.doc
Or...just have her run Opera or Firefox. I switched my grandmother to Firefox years ago, she's never complained.
Whats with all your overblown graphic comparisons today
She can't. The specific accounting software her company uses is ActiveX only, and only supported on IE6. Which is really dumb of the accounting software company...considering the automatic updates.Or...just have her run Opera or Firefox. I switched my grandmother to Firefox years ago, she's never complained.
Whats with all your overblown graphic comparisons today
The only way she can get to IE is to use a shortcut that takes her directly to that application. Everything else is Firefox.