Kick Ass Firefox Extension

I've been using the Firefox View in IE Extension for about a year or so now and I love it.  Like a lot of companies, Yahoo has a ton of web based applications that I rely on to do my day to day looking up orders, looking at contracts, accessing marketing materials, etc.  Unfortunately, a lot of these applications are a bit dated and don't necessarily play well with Firefox.  Therefore, I have become extremly reliant on the View in IE Extension.  If I find a page that isn't working, simply right click and a new IE window opens up.  It was great. Last week, I got a new machine and in the process of adding all of my applications I, of course, thought that I loaded the View in IE extension.  What I got was the IE Tab extension.  Wow.  Maybe I'm a lame ass and everyone but me knows about this, but it is pretty kick ass.  What can I say, I am a sales guy.  It still has the same functionality as before, except now the window states 'View Page in IE Tab'.  This is great because instead of opening a whole new IE window, it actually opens the IE window in a new tab within Firefox.  I love this because I can now keep multiple, IE reliant applications running in the same set of windows.  Me = Happy. Even nicer then that, if you can imagine, is a nifty little button in the lower right hand corner of the Firefox window that allows you to simply switch the window from Firefox to IE and back again.
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Love it.  You can get the extension here.

Comments (4)

Feb 17, 2006
Rene Pinheiro » Blog Archive » IE…? Nem para testar Lay-Out! said...
[...] É isso ai pessoal quem usa o Firefox não precisa mais do IE nem para testar layout, muito menos para ver sites toscos que não rodam no Firefox. O Firefox tem uma extensão chamada “ietab” que consistem em simular o IE lendo o web site da maneira que o IE leria com os bug´s e tudo. Fiz o teste com alguns sites que sei que não rodam ou ficam com a sua visualização comprometida no Firefox e deu certo passaram a funcionar e a visualização dos mesmos ficou como se eu estivesse navegando com o IE. Esta extensão vai inserir no rodapé no navegador um ícone do IE e clicando em cima do ícone ele passa a renderizar o web site como IE. E o ícone muda para o do Firefox, ai é só clicar que “volta” a ser o Firefox normalmente. A extensão vai a partir do Firefox 1.0, se o seu estiver abaixo já esta na hora de atualizar ele. Conheci esta extensão através do web site www.scottschnaars.com neste link aqui. [...]
Feb 17, 2006
Joe Grossberg said...
Yeah, it's good for two things, really:

* using IE-only sites (assholes)
* comparing browser differences in, say, CSS

Feb 19, 2006
Firefox said...
Kick Ass Firefox Extension

Check out the View in IE extension for Firefox if you use IE-centric sites....

Feb 22, 2006
Scott Schnaars’ KnuckleSandwich » Blog Archive » Another Kick Ass Firefox Extension said...
[...] Okay, so maybe I am pandering to the masses a bit here with my second Firefox Extension post, but I really love this one as well. [...]

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