how to install multiple versions of IE at the same time?

Question

In order to test web pages,

currently my page works file with my IE,

but not with others.

Is it possible to have multiple versions installed ?

Answer 1

See MultipleIE.

Answer 2

Check this question: Running IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the same machine

Answer 3

You can use IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage)

Answer 4

I would use VMs. Create an XP (or whatever) VM using VMware Workstation or similar product, and snapshot it. That is your oldest version. Then perform the upgrades one at a time, and snapshot each time. Then you can switch to any snapshot you need later, or clone independent VMs based on all the snapshots so you can run them all at once. You probably want to test on different operating systems as well as different versions, so VMs generalize that solution as well rather than some one-off solution of hacking multiple IEs to coexist on a single instance of Windows.

Answer 5

MultipleIE , IETester there are many of those choose 1 they all do the same

Answer 6

To answer your question: no, it's not possible to have multiple versions of IE (if that is what you meant) installed in a 'normal' way (i.e. not a hack, a sandbox or a VM etc). It's perfectly ok to have multiple browsers of different types installed on the same machine, such as IE8, Firefox 3 and Chrome all at once.

SandboxIE should allow you to install multiple versions of IE side-by-side (as well as other software), and this is less hassle than going down the virtual machine route.

However, from a QA point of view I'd strongly recommend installing different versions on different machines as the best option from a testing point of view. This will give you the most realistic testing environment. If you don't have the hardware for that, then virtual machines are the next best option as mentioned in some of the other answers.