If you could open Internet Explorer inside of one of Firefox’s tabs, you’d have the perfect mix of browsing perfection, wouldn’t you? Well the new thing that everybody seems to be excited about is the new Firefox extension that lets you do just that.

This is great for viewing some Web sites out there that don’t come out very well in Firefox. One of them that comes to mind is Yahoo’s Music Launch Web site. You can open up the IE Tab from a right-click on a link or by clicking the Firefox logo in the taskbar of the browser.

All and all, it seems like a good idea but there are parts of it that just bug me right now. One issue I noticed was the Web page would load fully via Firefox, then it would reload using IE’s display engine. Little problems like that will probably keep me from keeping this extension for too long.

If you are still using Firefox 1.0.x, you will need to install another script into Firefox to get it to work. I have noticed a lot of people getting hung up at this part of the extension install. You can find it and more information on the IE Tab Web site.

Right now I’d say the extension isn’t exactly perfect just yet. I ran into a few problems when using it, but it is the talk of the town. For another alternative, you should check out IE View.

Tags: firefox, tabs, ie, ie tab