Question

What I'm primarily wondering is when somebody asks me to take a look at their site and I use ie tab, what should I tell them? That I looked at it in ie 6, 7, or specifically tell them that I used ie tab (not preferable as it kind of defeats the whole purpose of emulating ie)?

EDIT: that was the original question, but I changed the title to more closely resemble the actual issue at hand.

ie tab for firefox

Answer 1

I think firefox IE tab, as you called it, is a real internet explorer instance put into FF window. So IE version would be the same as version of IE you have installed

Answer 2

It doesn't emulate anything. It simply uses IE to render the page instead of Gecko. (That's why that extension is only available on Windows, or at least pretty complicated to get running in BSD, for example.)

Answer 3

I only have Internet Explorer 8 installed (brand new Win7 install). IE tab is using the IE7 engine (out of the box). To test, open up IE tab and go here: http://www.thismachine.info/

Answer 4

I am pretty sure it uses the IE version that is installed on your system.

Answer 5

It is the same as the IE version on your PC. It just puts a native IE window inside of firefox with firefox controlling that specific instance of IE.