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		Xichekolas on April 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IETester is a free web browser that allows you to ... I just run a copy of XP inside VirtualBox to test things in IE. It's not application level virtualization, but I definitely don't care what happens to the registry, as I can just swap in a fresh disk image whenever I want.

wanorris on April 23, 2008 [–]

I love VirtualBox, but it's takes up a lot of space to keep several XP images on my notebook. The fact that this lets you test in IE5.5 through IE8 on a single image is a nice win, IMHO.

attack on April 24, 2008 | [–]

Co-linux should have a smaller footprint. Then run ie4linux on that.

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