The downside of this app is that you need to have IE7 installed I think. At least that was my problem when I tried it – I have IE6 installed and can’t/won’t upgrade, and then this program is kind of useless. I’m using VMWare with lots of RAM instead, which works great for me. On top of that I will be 100% sure that no quirks cause rendering bugs that are caused by trying to get all the IE’s running at the same time on the same system..

Yeah, I think you’re right that it needs to have Internet Explorer 7. I didn’t think about that since I was testing it on Vista.

It’s definitely not perfect, but I prefer it over booting up a virtual machine all of the time. I’ll probably still do that from time-to-time, but for some quick tests it works pretty well.

Proof of this on the site:
“Known problems and limitations:
* When resizing, the content may disappear. I am working to correct it on the next version.
* The Previous/Next buttons are not working properly
* Focus is not working properly
* Java applets are not working
* Flash is not working on IE6 instance.”

Most of these things need to work for me in order to test websites properly..

By the way, I don’t test in IE5.5 anymore either.

Thanks alot should help in testing websites but how many people still test for IE 5.5

Not me. IE6 / IE7 / Opera / Safari / Firefox are the browsers I support with a design.

Better yet, I can’t wait for the day when IE6 is dead.

I couldn’t agree with you more. I wish the IE7 adoption rate was a little faster, but at least it has taken over IE6 in usage.

Doesn’t work on Vista though, and doesn’t have IE7/8 compatibility. So this is definitely better in my opinion.

I don’t test for IE 5.5 anymore. Our site is readable, but the sidebar and footer are a little out of whack in IE 5.5. I actually didn’t know that until today because I don’t have a machine with IE 5.5 anymore.