A lot of folks might say that Firefox is good. Many more folks would say that Firefox is great. One thing that we can not ignore though is that not every Web page looks good inside of Firefox. Due to some companies only supporting some browsers, Firefox has been left out in the rain on more than one occasion. There is hope though. You can make it easier to switch from Firefox to Internet Explorer and back again.
This tip came to me via a Lockergnome reader. Chuck told me that he often uses these two extensions to switch back and forth between Firefox and Internet Explorer. The first extension is IE View. IE View adds an option inside of Firefox so that you can “View in IE”.
From within the IE View extension, you can also set that certain pages always open in IE. So if you know a Web page is never going to work in Firefox, put it in that box and every time you launch it, it will launch in Internet Explorer.
What if you want to go back to Firefox from Internet Explorer? Well that is where the second extension comes into play. Firefox View is to Internet Explorer what IE View is to Firefox. Once you install Firefox View, then you will have an option from within Internet Explorer to view a Web page inside of the Firefox browser.
By installing both of these, you are able to switch between the two browsers. You might not be solving world hunger, but you will be letting two browsers who don’t usually work well together both exist side by side on your machine. Many thanks to Chuck for the tip, and if you have one you’d like to share just get ahold of me.
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