What happened to FIRE IE Tab?
Ours quit working and we can't get to compatible and use our apps. We are having to move over to IE to work. Please advise. Thanks
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Recent user reviews at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab/reviews/ report errors with the add-on. The add-on was last updated on April 21, 2013, so it may no longer be compatible with new versions of Firefox (not to mention other, updated add-ons).
Your best bet here is to contact the add-on developer and get them to bring their add-on up to speed for 2016/Firefox 46.
Since you are using Firefox in a business context, I would suggest trying out Firefox ESR, the Extended Support Release: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/. The ESR is patched for security but not features, so you can have longer periods between feature and functionality updates and hence compatibility checks.
Well said.
Phoxuponyou this was about the Fire IE extension and not one of the "IE Tab" extensions such as the old one you linked to.
Speaking of IE Tab this version of the extension is more up to date but still has problems in Recent Releases of Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ie-tab-2-ff-36/
Extensions like IE Tab versions and Fire IE is not a emulator as it uses IE in a Firefox tab. So you are using IE either way.
Modified by James (doing minimal support)
ROMECC said
Ours quit working and we can't get to compatible and use our apps. We are having to move over to IE to work.
If your apps are only compatible with IE, then you might as well use IE for those apps. You can still use Firefox for other sites. If you need a convenient way to launch IE from within Firefox, you can use the following extension. It also has a feature to automatically launch particular sites in IE.
I apologise, I misread the add-on title as "IE Tab" out of familiarity. Please follow James' link to Fire IE's page and the instructions therein, if you wish to keep using the add-on - the general advice is still sound.
James and jscher bring up valid points about the mechanics here, in the end it's still very much IE, you just choose where and how it appears. Launching an IE window sounds less complicated than trying to shove IE into Firefox.