should I run IE7 standalone or IE6 standalone?

[amznVibe]

What is the current logic now with IE7, should I install IE7 as the base browser and use IE6 as standalone or should I keep IE6 as the core and run IE7 as standalone?

[bill]

I upgraded almost all of my machines to IE7 and run IE6 in a virtual PC [webmasterworld.com] for testing.

[J_RaD]

^ ditto

[amznVibe]

I've been aware of those images from MS but do you realize that IE6 image expands to over a gigabyte in size to run a program the size of a few megabytes? You don't find that disturbing?

Virtual PC seems to complain about running on my XP home install anyway, I use vmware instead.

[bill]

I'm a VMware user myself. I simply run IE6 in one of the old WinXP or Win2K virtual installs I have.

The MS solution will work as well though. They've made the image proprietary and it's extremely difficult to get to run in VMware. The usual suggestion is simply to use the MS Virtual PC software for those images.

IE6 is not a small program, and it integrates itself with all sorts of things throughout Windows. However, in these days of super cheap HDDs it's not much of a concern on a virtual machine.

[Trace]

Just Google "IETester"

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP

[dreamcatcher]

You can also check out the browser archive:
[browsers.evolt.org...]

dc

[JAB Creations]

The "standalone" package I encountered on one site claims to have IE6 standalone when in fact it is not.

I run IE6 system and IE 3.0, 4.0, 5.01, 5.5, and 7.0 standalone.

To create a standalone IE 7.0 simply install it, reboot, copy the IE7 folder, paste a copy elsewhere, uninstall IE7, reboot, and I think you may have to replicate the iexplore.exe.local hack though I'm not certain as I did this a long time ago.

- John