Well, there’s a bunch of reasons you’d want to use IE on your Mac, but most are developers looking to insure cross-platform and cross-platform compatibility. Why would you run Internet Explorer in Mac OS X? You can get Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac OS X if you are interested in running this older version. IE 5.2.3 was the last supported and released version of Internet Explorer by Microsoft for Mac OS. You can download WineBottler from the developer. If you want to run Internet Explorer 7 or 8 in Mac OS I’d highly recommend just installing Parallels, VirtualBox, or VMWare with Windows, it’ll be far more stable. I can confirm this, both crashed during testing the app but IE8 was particularly problematic. If you are looking to install Internet Explorer 7 or 8 be aware that the developer of WineBottler warns both IE7 and IE8 are not particularly stable. Stability of running IE for Mac via WineBottler

* You will then look for the newly downloaded and installed “Internet Explorer 7.app” file within /Applications See screenshot below for installation reference. * Installation and setup instructions are the same as above but click on “Internet Explorer 7 or 8” in the package installer. * You are now running Internet Explorer 6 on your Mac!ĭownload and Run Internet Explorer 7 or 8 in Mac OS * When the Installation is finished, locate the newly created Internet Explorer 6.app located where you specified earlier and launch * Wait a few moments while IE6 gets installed, you may be asked about installing DCOM98.EXE from Microsoft, which is a required part of IE. * Select the folder you want Internet Explorer 6.app to be installed into (Applications) * Click on ‘Install Predefined Prefixes’ on the left column Here’s how to get Internet Explorer running on your Mac using WineBottler:ĭownload and Get Internet Explorer 6 for Mac Later versions of Internet Explorer can be downloaded and run through the WineBottler app within Mac OS X, the instructions below will walk you through this process with versions 6, 7, and 8. Download Internet Explorer for Macĭownloading Internet Explorer for Mac directly can be done with IE5, but as we mention below Microsoft stopped supporting it officially after this version. There’s several packages included in WineBottler but the ones you are interested in using are Internet Explorer. app files that sit in your Applications folder like any other Mac app. Try WineBottler, it runs off of Wine and ‘bottles’ various Windows apps into launchable.

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