Internet Explorer

Posted by Charlie Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:59:00 GMT

Over the weekend we pushed another update. This update continued the rollout of the new user interface, with changes to the search page and communities page. The friends page and ratings pages are slated for updates later this week.

We also spent a lot of time fixing bugs that occur in Internet Explorer 6 sp2 (including the g bug)- that's what you are probably using if you have Windows XP.

Internet Explorer 6 sp1 though still has issues - thats the version you are likely running if you have an older version of Windows (Windows 2000, Windows ME, etc.). We're in the process of setting up our test lab to include IE SP1.

One of the difficulties in testing IE is that it is tied to the operating system. That means you cannot run two different versions of IE on the same machine.

However, there is an very clever way around this. You can install software from VMWare that creates "virtual" machines. Using VMWare, on our Linux box, we can create any number of "virtual" machines running Windows XP, Windows 2000, etc. You can also create virtual machines for other Linux Operating Sytems, Solaris, FreeBSD, and if rumour is correct, soon Mac OS X. Its really an amazing program.

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  1. Avatar maldents said 2 months later:

    There have been numerous exploits that allow you to run multiple versions of IE. See http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/Multiple-IEs-in-Windows_article795.aspx

    I’ve run IE 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 sp2 simultaneously. However it is a hack and some things dont work properly like printing.

    -p

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