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any suggestion for a firebug equivalent and a way to install all versions of IE simultaneously ? I am really struggling with that big time.

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I presume you mean an equivalent to Firebug for IE.

There's Fiddler and Visual Studio, or you can try Firebug Lite.

As far as multiple versions, the only solution I've found is multiple VMs which sucks, but that's what happens when the browser is tightly integrated with the OS.

IE9 also has it's own debug tools built-in which are similar to Firebug. Press F12.

IE6-8 also have a developer toolbar but it is no where near as powerful as Firebug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_Developer_Too...

This is what I've been using but I've found it to be incredibly glitchy, at least on IE8. At times it will recognize an element, sometimes it won't. Sometimes the document fails to load completely in the editor, even though the page has loaded fine in IE.

Yeah, doesn't match the power of firebug. Wondering what if MS packages some modified version of Firefox as their default browser for Windows? This way everyone would be happy. Quite unrealistic but if they can do some kind of modifications to suit them, I would not mind getting anything which isn't IE.

The main thing I miss with the IE developer tools, at least in 8, is that unlike Chrome their JS console doesn't let you expand the results of evaluating JS expressions that return complex objects. It just spits out "<Object>" or something of that sort.

Microsoft releases virtual machines for old versions of IE that expire and are updated regularly http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=...

There's a nifty tool called IETester which allows you to render a page in every version of IE simultaneously. It works pretty well.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Expression Web with SuperPreview does exactly what you're looking for.

IETester works for me.

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