[jimwww]

Hi Guys,
I am on a 2009 Mac Pro Tower 8 core and need to use IE specifically couple times a week. Most of the links in google go to weird stuff. Where can I get the last version - not running virtual machine on this.

 

[Andrew Pratt]

You can't run IE on a Mac outside a virtual machine or boot camp. There was an OLD version of IE for mac but i'm not sure that still works anymore...esp in Lion.

Are you sure you need IE? You can change the user agent in Safari to mimic IE and that sometimes works or try FireFox or Chrome.

If you really do need IE then you'll either have to install Windows (either virtual or Bootcamp), use remote desktop to connect to a windows box or buy a cheap windows machine and use that.

Another alternative is to use IE6 in Crossover

 

[jamesB]

Hi Guys,
I am on a 2009 Mac Pro Tower 8 core and need to use IE specifically couple times a week. Most of the links in google go to weird stuff. Where can I get the last version - not running virtual machine on this.

Here is a link,
hasn't been updated since 2003 and is for PPC Macs only.

 

[SINC]

Your post got me to thinking that I might just have a copy of IE 5.2 for the Mac and sure enough, I still have one. If you have the software to run it, you can download it from my DropBox files here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46939750/Internet Explorer 5.2.zip

 

[dona83]

You can run it on Snow Leopard through Rosetta.

 

[macintosh doctor]

try opera, sometimes that works for me

 

[ehMax]

You can also use Safari's "Developer" mode to trick websites into thinking you are running IE, and in many cases that works fine.

There's a couple of distributor websites that insist on being browsed from IE. I use that method, and than the website works fine.

To use the developer mode, go to Safari Preferences --> Advanced --> Check "Show Develop menu in menu bar". See screen shot attached.

You'll then have a "Develop" menu in your Safari menus. See screen shot attached.

Go to Develop --> User Agent --> Then pick your flavour of IE. (I usually just select the highest version)

The page will refresh, and the site you are visiting will think you're using IE, and very good chance it will work.

 

[jimwww]

SINC - this worked - it was exactly what i needed to make changes on a website with older software. Thanks guys!

 

[SINC]

Glad to hear it worked out for you. I am a bit of a software pack rat. I still have every retail disk for 10.0 through 10.6 in one box. Not sure what I will ever do with them, nor why I keep them. Oh well, at times like this it pays off.