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.

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.

Ie Tab For Chrome Mac

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.

The buttons left-to-right are for “Pinning the IE Bar”, “Settings”, “Refreshing the Webpage”, “Minimizing the IE Bar”, and “Closing the Entire Chrome/IE Tab”. If you have “minimized” the “IE Bar” this is what it will look likelight blue in color with only a “Black Arrow Button” to return it to regular view. A free (for personal use) browser extension called 'IE Tab' can be added to Chromeor to FirefoxinWindowsto allow Internet Explorer componentsto support displaying and running web pages in a tab insideChrome or Firefox. This enables you to display web pages that use Microsoft Silverlight (such.

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 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

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Internet Explorer Security Fix: Chrome + IE Tab

IE Tab for Chrome has long been used as a means of having both the security benefits of Chrome and the ability to use web based applications that require Internet Explorer.

IE Tab gives you the ability to use the Internet Explorer rendering engine within a tab in Chrome so you do not have to launch Internet Explorer to use web applications that require it.

The latest 0-day Internet Explorer bug Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVW-2014-1776) reveals how dangerous it is to run out-dated browsers. But many corporate environments are still using tools and websites that require Internet Explorer.

IE Tab provides a solution that allows you to run the latest version of Chrome for all of your normal browsing, but use IE for only the sites that require it. By only allowing trusted sites to use the IE rendering engine, you are mitigating the risk that your users can be lured to a site that exploits a vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

Configuration Steps

Install the Chrome browser
Go to the Chrome Web Store and install the IE Tab extension
Click on the IE Tab icon to open pages that require Internet Explorer
Configure “Auto URLs” so pages that require Internet Explorer are opened in Internet Explorer automatically
Only use Internet Explorer for trusted sites

Enterprise Configuration

Ie Tab For Chromebook

With the IE Tab Enterprise Edition features (licensing fee applies for IE Tab business use), you can deploy these settings to your users with Group Policy.

That Group Policy setting is shown below, please contact us at support@ietab.net for more information. Uplay download.