Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 on same computer for debugging [duplicate]

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Running Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 on the same machine

I recently started a new job and my lead is out sick. He assigned me a bug in our code that only affects Internet Explorer 6. The developer box I'm running is Windows Server 2003 with Internet Explorer 7, though.

How can I open the web page and debug it from my computer in Internet Explorer 6?

Install Virtual PC (now a free download) and one of the disk images from this page that provides you with a vanilla install of XP with the browser you want to test.

Use IETester.

Step 1: Virtual machines configured for each setup you want to test. Use VMWare or Parallels if you are on a Mac.

Step 2: Automate your functional tests with Selenium. You will never look back!

We do all of our IE6 testing on a VMWare machine that runs XP with IE6. Obviously takes a bit of setup time but worth it once it's done.

I've played with many of these ie6 options, and the best IMO is just to have a vmware install with an ie6 image in the long term.

In the short term, however, I've had the most success with IE Collection, but it is still somewhat buggy.

IES4Linux and IES4OSX work [sometimes] on their respective Operating Systems too.

Use Spoon (was Xenocode)... http://spoon.net/browsers/

It will let you startup any number of different browsers in a sandbox from within your browser.

The advantage:

You don't have to install any virtual machines.
You don't have to rely on apps like IE Tester and can instead use the actual browsers.

This obviously doesn't apply to your specific situation, but for anyone who is running Windows 7, a good option is to use XP Mode. The XPM image has IE6 installed and won't expire like the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC images.

Once you've installed XP Mode, create a shortcut to IE in the XP Programs menu (so a shortcut is published to your Win 7 Start menu). You can then launch IE6 side-by-side with IE8 on your Win 7 desktop.

You can also use Microsoft's own Expression Web SuperPreview

Download page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en

Further info: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565874.aspx

Edit:

Sorry I didn't notice your "...and debug it..." statement in the original post. I think SuperPreview will just show a side-by-side visual comparison. If you need to debug javascript or anything like that, then I would use the virtualization methods mentioned above. (In practice I actually use virtualization for testing, but I figured I'd suggest something different.)

Multiple IE works great.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669124/internet-explorer-6-and-internet-explorer-7-on-same-computer-for-debugging

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