IE Tab for Chrome is a free extension that effectively emulates the Internet Explorer rendering engine making it possible for you to visit IE required sites without actually launching IE. By doing this, IE Tab for Chrome enables the use of ActiveX controls to test your web pages with different versions of IE (IE6, IE7, IE8, or IE9). Apr 28, 2012 IE Tab doesn’t integrate perfectly with Chrome – each IE tab frame has its own address bar. To bookmark a page, click the bookmark icon on the IE Tab toolbar. IE Tab will create a bookmark and save it to the “IE Tab” folder on your bookmarks toolbar. When clicked, the bookmark will load the current page in an IE Tab. IE Tab for Chrome 13.7.15.1: Use Internet Explorer to display IE-only web pages in a Chrome tab.

Internet Explorer is the only supported web browser for Engage QM Integrated. To use Engage QM Integrated with the Google Chrome browser, you must install the IE Tab extension on all Chrome browsers that will use Engage QM Integrated. This extension allows a Chrome tab to emulate Internet Explorer.

The IE Tab extension is available from the Google Chrome Web Store or directly from the product vendor, Blackfish Software. Refer to the licensing information available from the vendor to determine the appropriate licensing option for your organization.

1. Open Google Chrome and access the Chrome Web Store.
2. Search for IE Tab.
3. In the search results, click Add to Chrome for the IE Tab extension offered by Blackfish Software.
4. Add the extension to Chrome and follow the on-screen instructions that appear during the installation process.
5. When the IE address bar is successfully installed, click the settings icon in the IE address bar.
6. On the IE Tab Options and Settings page, scroll down to IE Compatibility Mode and click IE 11 Standards Mode. The page automatically saves your selection.

You have to accept that some websites work only with IE (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer). They are designed that way and you can’t do anything for them. Especially intranet websites which were made years before Chrome or Firefox and now have cluttered layout in latest browsers.

Another major problem is some links don’t recognize a click inside chrome. On hitting they don’t do what they were supposed to do, but sit idle. They seem to work perfectly in IE though. For such problems, you can use IE engine inside Chrome with this or this extension.

Ie Tab For Chrome Mac

What these extensions/addons does is use inbuilt operating system’s IE engine to render web-pages inside Chrome, so you don’t have to open IE each time for IE-specific site. They are very useful for corporate intranet sites, designers and sites with ActiveX controls.

You have two choices for using IE-Tab in Chrome. One is stable and popular but the other one gives you better controlling though it has few bugs.

IE Tab is enormous popular inside extension gallery and it fulfills ones basic needs. You can add specific URL’s that you want to open in IE engine always.

Ie Tab For Chrome For Mac

IE Tab Classic is relatively new and provides better user interface than the previous one. With this you can specify which web sites or which pages always opens in IE. It also provides icon in omnibox to quickly switch between chrome and IE.

Note 1: When using IE rendering engines inside chrome, you can’t use chrome right-click items or other features such as opening new tabs by clicking middle mouse button.

Note 2: Some users have reported difficulty using tab key or Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V with IE Tab Classic. And it also doesn’t work with Mac OS.

Related: Official Google Extensions for Chrome