[Ext] IE Tab 1.5

[jones172]

The subject is the IE Tab add-on. It will work in an administrative account. However, in my main account, which is hardened for security reasons, IE Tab does not show up on the monitor screen.

For a discussion of the hardened account (Limited User Account), please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... n_features

I am running Windows XP Home Service Pack 3. FF 3.0.5.
Dell Dimension 2400 desktop

Tom

[lothda]

Running: Firefox 3.0.5, IE Tab 1.5.20081203, Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11

I had the following problem: my Internet banking only supports IE, so I installed IE Tab which worked fine. One time I closed Firefox while I was still logged in to my bank account. Going back to the banking site I got a message that I was already logged in and should always log out before closing the browser. The only option offered was to close the browser! I could still access my account in IE itself - I was not recognised as being logged in. Deleting cookies didn't help. I uninstalled IE Tab and installed it again. Going to the account login page now had me logged in already and I was able to see my account details without getting an error message. No idea what happened exactly, but it seems that IE Tab isn't completely compatible with that bank's website. Just thought I'd report this.

[mpullen]

Hello!

We are a school system which has moved to FireFox as our primary browser. However, there are several frequently-used but proprietary websites that many staff must use, which do not render correctly in FireFox. So, we are very happily employing IETab to fix this dilemma! BUT-- rolling out IETab _and_ the custom list of sites we need added to the filter, is not something we can do easily. Installing the .xpi is easy, but-- getting the custom filter list imported --isn't-- easy to tell folks how to do, nor can we find a way for it to be "scripted" so that it be pushed out across the network (We're on Novell, FWIW)...

What I'd -like- to do, if it is possible, is to repackage the ietab.xpi to -include- our custom filter settings. Is this possible? I'm -not- a programmer, but i expect that i can muddle through editing a couple of files and recompiling from source (which i -have- downloaded.)

But-- i can't find any reference to setting the initial "filter defaults" in the source code. Can you please find some direction to help us customize this so that we may more fully utilize this great tool?

Thanks!
Mike Pullen
Computer Tech
School District of Baraboo, WI

[Chris000001]

The default filter list is located in ietab.xpi\defaults\preferences\ietab.js.

pref("ietab.filterlist", "/^file:\/\/\/.*\.(mht|mhtml)$/ http://*update.microsoft.com/* http://www.windowsupdate.com/*");

If you need more help with the editing/recompiling just post here again. I'd post it now, but it's a lot of typing (but not that difficult.)

[mpullen]

Chris--

Thanks for the quick response!

I had downloaded the source file from http://downloads.mozdev.org/ietab/ (ietab.plugin.src.2008113001.zip), and have now looked through that again, but don't see anything like "defaults\preferences\ietab.js" to edit. Am i completely looking in the wrong place?

What's the best way to do this edit?!? : )

Thanks!
Mike

[mpullen]

Oh, geez! Is it really this easy?!?

i unzipped the .xpi file, edited the ietab.js (prefs) file, then-- re-zipped the files. Dropped it into Firefox and restarted, and-- voila: customized IETab for our school.

THANK YOU!

Mike

[sputnik1]

I use IE Tab and it's fantastic.

However, I have a problem with Microsoft Project Web Access. I can use it with IE7, but when I use IETab within Firefox, in a number of views (e.g. Project Center) I just get "Loading grid..." appear. This is the first time IE Tab has been defeated by Microsoft.

I think project Web Access uses some ActiveX controls. I've installed those as prompted when using IE, but it still doesn't work in IE Tab, even after reboot.

Any ideas?

[Ngamer01]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10155

This just hit the AMO Sandbox. Did ownership of IE Tab transfer to imbp24? I bring it up because the version number is exactly the same as IE Tab and the small screenshot icon resembles one of IE Tab's screenshots.

[Chris000001]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10155

This just hit the AMO Sandbox. Did ownership of IE Tab transfer to imbp24? I bring it up because the version number is exactly the same as IE Tab and the small screenshot icon resembles one of IE Tab's screenshots.

I wouldn't use it. It is just IE-Tab code with some extra code added to hijack your error pages. And it's missing the actual 'npietab.dll' that makes the real one work.

[drone27of1]

I have a problem with a corporate intranet site using parent-child relationships tabs/windows.

Using IE6, the page opens a new window and disables the parent until the child(new window) is closed.
Using IE8b2 in tab mode, the new tab opens and the same concept applies.

However, if I use IE Tab the connection from parent-child is severed.
The parent is disabled and the child opens but when closed, does not re-activate the parent tab.

FF has no problem with this but no activex content can show up...

I have Tried IE Tab with IE6/7/8b2. Always the same problem
Is there a way to fix this or will there be one any time soon?

Thanks.

[Endicott]

Have an identical situation as stevemeister Posted December 12th, 2008, 12:45 am
Upgraded to FF 3.0.5 and IE Tab v. 1.5.20080803 and 1.5.20081203. Both instantly crash FF3. IE version is 7.0.5730.13.
Current PC is a Dell Inspiron 1520 (2 MHz) running Win XP Home, v 5.1.2600 SP 3 with 2 Gb RAM.
I recently deleted a Vundo type virus using Malwarebytes Anti-malware v. 1.3 (after unsuccessfully using Trend Micro, Windows Live 1 Care, Webroot Spysweeper,Windows Defender, McAfee and Avast). Perhaps this process somehow affected IE Tab 1.5. Ideas? I'd hate to lose functionality of IE Tab.

[zwerfkat]

Feature request: add a white list for URL's to be always opened in the External Application.

[soulek]

I'm having a problem with IE Tab crashing Firefox.

My versions are:

Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
IE Tab 1.5.20081203
Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13

My OS is Windows XP Professional, fully patched, and with IE fully updated.

IE Tab used to work fine (and I don't know when it ceased to work). However, now when I click on the FF icon on the FF status bar ... to change the page from the FF engine to the IE engine, I get an immediate FF crash. And trying to restart FF with all the same tabs results in an immediate crash (fyi, on the restart, it shows that there are 2 FF windows, when there was really only 1 before I crashed, so I assume that IE Tab creates a second FF window).

Here is a link to the most recent crash report: http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/i ... 090101?p=1

I created a new profile, with IETab as the only extension ... and the same thing happened. Crash.

IE and IE View (FF extension) work fine. FYI, my version of IE has IE Pro ver. 2.4 installed.

I copied my entire FF profile, with all 50 extensions, to another computer/XP Pro system ... and IE Tab worked fine there. Makes me believe that it is an issue with the IE installation or the registry, but I don't know how to approach that.

Any thoughts? Any questions?

Thanks

[gtackett]

Feature request: add a white list for URL's to be always opened in the External Application.

Please allow me to voice my concurrence. There are a number of sites I use that ONLY work well when run in IE as a separate application.

(Didn't the old IE View have this capability?)

[Ztruker]

soulek, have you tried uninstalling IE Tab, then uninstalling SeaMonkey. Reboot then install the latest SM (1.1.14), then the latest IE Tab (1.5.20081203) from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/1419.