How to get Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 on Apple’s Mac OS X: Step 1: You will need to have Microsoft’s Remote Desktop app for Mac downloaded. Step 2: Now head over to Microsoft’s Modern IE service at remote.modern.ie. Step 3: Once you’ve authenticated and are in the service, select a. How to access websites that require a PC or Internet Explorer. Launch Safari. Click Safari in the menu bar at the top of your screen. Click Preferences. Click on the Advanced tab. Check the 'Show Develop menu in menu bar' setting, then close the Preferences window. The Develop menu should now show in your menu bar. Go to Develop User Agent.

Microsoft once had a free browser, Internet Explorer for Macintosh. It was designed specifically to operate on Mac computers. Unfortunately, Microsoft relinquished support for the browser on December 31st, 2005. While Microsoft no longer supports the browser, you can still download it and use it on your Mac. Internet Explorer Mac is the most far and wide used World Wide Web browser. It is packaged with the Microsoft Windows operating system and can also be downloaded from Microsoft’s Web site. It provides users with a lot of the features of contending browsers, such support for cascading style sheets, the promise of increased security against malware, tabbed browsing, RSS feeds. It competes against browsers including Mosaic, Firefox, Opera and Apple Computer’s Safari.

There have been several versions of the web browser over the years. The most recent version is Internet Explorer 10.6.8. This current version has been revamped and comes with a plethora of new and updated features. Some features from previous versions have also been removed. The web browser’s performance is greatly enhanced as an effect of speed improvements. Internet Explorer 10.6.8 Mac also utilizes less memory with numerous tabs open than current versions of Firefox and Chrome.

• Internet Explorer is more standards-compliant and faster than ever.
• There is minimum interface.
• It has outstanding privacy and security.
• The most recent version of the web browser comes with enhanced performance due to its improvement in speed.
• It gives much quicker page loading.
• There is support for WebGL, which is an open-graphics set that can provide 3D graphics inside web browsers.
• There is support for new web standards.
• Internet Explorermac5.2.3 now has support for live chat.
• Apps now play better with web pages. Users can open apps in a smaller browser window and can put two apps side by side in Snap mode. In previous versions, users could only do one thing at a time.
• Infinite Tabs is now allowed, and the browsing experience will not be slowed down.
• There is support for Multi-Window Browsing.
• There have been improvements to the Favorites Center- Users can remain in the new user interface and edit bookmarks. There is also the opportunity to give each bookmark a personalized image so that it’s immediately identifiable when you call up the list.

To download Internet Explorer 10.6.8, your PC must have a few minimum requirements.

• A Windows RT 8.1 or Windows 8.1 PC
• 1 GHz or faster processor with support for SSE2, PAE, and NX
• At least 1 GB of RAM for 32 bit or 2 GB for 64 bit
• Hard disk space of 16 GB for 32 bit or 20 GB for 64-bit
• Graphics card of Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
• Internet access

Author Note: Although Internet Explorer Mac is no longer supported by Mac, it can still be downloaded and used by regular Mac users. The latest version offers much-improved performance and features that will make the user experience awesome, and you will hardly have anything to complain about.

Whether you develop for the web and need to see how your site or web app displays itself in multiple browsers, or you just want to visit a site that requires a particular browser that you don't want to use, you may eventually need to use a browser other than Safari. While most of the web is free to access through any browser you'd like, there are occasionally websites (particularly older ones) that need you to use browsers like Internet Explorer, or worse yet, would like you to be on a Windows PC. Or maybe you'd like to see how your site or web app presents itself in Safari on iPhone or iPad, or Chrome on Windows.

Luckily, Safari on Mac has the answer for you. Safari allows you to masquerade as the user of other browsers and Windows through a tool in its Develop menu: changing the user agent. Changing the user agent tells websites that you're using a browser other than the version of Safari that you're using on your Mac. It can event tell a website that you're running Windows.

Safari for Mac supports the following user agents:

• Safari for iPhone
• Safari for iPad
• Safari for iPod touch
• Microsoft Edge
• Internet Explorer 11
• Internet Explorer 10
• Internet Explorer 9
• Internet Explorer 8
• Internet Explorer 7
• Google Chrome for Mac
• Google Chrome for Windows
• Firefox for Mac
• Firefox for Windows

Keep in mind that, though Safari will appear to be another browser, it won't actually be that browser. Any web app or site that requires, say, Chrome's Blink rendering engine (which Safari doesn't have) won't work properly, even if Safari's user agent is changed to Google Chrome.

Here's how you go about changing the user agent in Safari.

How to access websites in Safari that require a PC or another browser

1. Open Safari from your Dock or Applications folder.

2. Click Safari in the Menu bar.

3. Click Preferences.

4. Click Advanced.

5. Check the box next to Show Develop menu in the menu bar.

6. Close the Preferences window. The user agent choices will be grayed out and unselectable if you don't.

7. Click Develop.

8. Hover over User Agent.

9. Click on the user agent of the browser you need. If you need to pretend that you're using a PC, choose Microsoft Edge, a version of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome — Windows, or Firefox — Windows.

Doing this should get you through a website detection-checker.

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Questions?

If you have any questions about masquerading Safari as a Windows web browser, let us know in the comments.

Updated May 2019: Updated through macOS Mojave.

Serenity Caldwell contributed to a previous version of this article.

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