If you visit the official website of Microsoft, you wouldn't find Internet Explorer for Mac available for download. This is due to the fact that the agreement between Apple and Microsoft regarding the Microsoft IE Mac edition ended way back in 2003. At one time, the IE Mac edition was the default browser for all the Apple computers.
A Internet Explorer 10 on Mac OS X (Yosemite) user agent. Go to Plug-ins > Trend Micro Security (for Mac) to open the TMSM server console. Go to Server Updates > Update Source. Make sure that the Trend Micro’s ActiveUpdate Server is selected. Go to Server Updates > Manual Updates. Select Trend Micro Security (for Mac) Agent and deselect the rest of the options. Click Update.
Initially, it had the same code base as the Internet Explorer Windows edition, however, Microsoft later came up with a unique layout engine for the Mac edition of Internet Explorer. In 2003, Apple brought its own web browser (Safari) and terminated its agreement with Microsoft.
However, some Mac users still want to download IE Mac edition. Most of them are web designers and developers who need all the browsers for conducting cross-browser testing of their websites and apps. Let's learn about the process of downloading IE for Macintosh computers.
Can You Download IE for Mac? Yes, you can download the IE Mac edition.
However, it is not available on the official Microsoft website. So, there are other places where you can download IE for Mac. There are some websites that are specifically aimed at aggregating and providing old apps and software. Old apps is one such website.
Free software download websites like softpedia or download.cnet may also provide some versions of IE for Mac. How to Download You can look up a website that has IE Mac edition available for download and follow the instructions there, or you can download it from the old apps website. There is another way of doing it, and that involves using an app called wineBottler. It is an app that converts Windows apps into apps that can used on Mac.
Just download (google it) wineBottler and launch it. Now, look for the option 'install predefined prefixes' and click on it. Choose the version of IE that you want to install. Now, assign a location for the installation on your Mac and install it. Not all the IE versions work with stability on the Mac; you should avoid the version 8 of the software.
If you just want to test your websites in IE, you could use websites like browsershots that show you screenshots of your websites in many different web browsers. You can also choose to install the last supported version of Internet Explorer for Mac, which was Internet Explorer 5. You could get this version from oldapps. There are many ways in which you can test your website in different browsers. However, if you want to personally test your website in all the browsers along with its usability and accessibility, you can try using the aforementioned methods to download and install IE for Mac. As for browsing, there are several better alternatives to IE that give you a better speed and browsing experience.
Safari is the default browser in macOS and has been ever since Apple first built its own web browser. Before that, for a while, it was Internet Explorer — but the less said about that the better, and before that it was Netscape Navigator.
Remember that? Safari is a perfectly good web browser and offers most of the features of its competitor web browsers, including autofill for forms and credit card details, secure password storage, and the ability to request that websites do not track you. Given Apple’s recent focus on privacy, it’s not unlikely that Safari will soon be the best option all round for Mac users who want to surf the net securely and without handing over personal data. However, there are perfectly good reasons why you might want to use a different browser. Performance is one of them.
While Safari is pretty speedy, for some users in some circumstances it’s slower than Chrome or Firefox. Or it might be that there are extensions you need that are only available in Chrome, or perhaps a website you use regularly doesn’t work properly in Safari.
What is a default web browser? Before we get to how to change your default web browser, it’s worth considering what a default web browser is and does. Put simply, it’s the web browser that opens a link when you click on it in an email or other document. If you use Spotlight and click on a result from the web, it will open in your default browser.
In fact any task that opens a URL will be performed in that web browser. It doesn’t mean, of course, that you can’t use other browsers to surf the net. So, if you just need to access specific sites in Chrome or Firefox, you don’t need to change your default browser. Even if Safari is you default browser, you can open any link in another browser, by holding down the Control key when you click on it and selecting Copy Link, then paste it in the address bar of any browser you like. How to set the default browser in macOS El Capitan or later, and OS X Yosemite Apple changed the way you set the default browser in OS X Yosemite and it has remained the same since then. Previously, as you’ll see below, you had to open Safari to, say, make Google Chrome the default browser.
As Apple realised, eventually, that’s plain daft. Here’s how to do it now. Click on the Apple menu and select System Preferences. Choose the General tab.
Just over half way down, there’s a menu next to “Default web browser.” Click on it and choose the browser you want to set as the default. How to change the default web browser in OS X Mavericks or earlier. Launch Safari. Click on the Safari menu and choose Preferences.
Click on the General tab. Choose the web browser you want to use as the default by clicking on the menu next to Default web browser. Close Preferences.
Quit Safari. Other methods for changing your default web browser Every browser wants to be the default — it’s the most obvious way to increase user numbers. And so whenever you open a browser that’s not the default, you’ll see a pop up window asking if you want to set it as your browser of choice.
If you choose so, it will change the System Preferences setting and position itself as the default. If you refuse and later decide you want to make it the default after all, that’s easy too. Here’s how you do it in some of the more popular browsers for macOS. Chrome. To make Chrome the default browser, first of all launch it. Click on the Chrome menu and select Preferences.
In the web page that opens, scroll down until you see Default Browser. Click Make Default. Firefox. Launch Firefox.
In the Firefox menu, click Preferences. Make sure General is selected in the left hand sidebar (it should be blue). At the top of the page, you should see “General” and underneath it, a message saying that Firefox isn’t currently your default browser. To the right of that, click Make Defaul. Opera. Launch Opera. Click on the Opera menu and select Preferences.
In the web page that opens, make sure Basic is selected on the left hand side. Click on Make Opera my default browser. Vivaldi. Launch Vivaldi. Click the Vivaldi menu and choose Preferences.
Make sure Startup is selected in the left hand sidebar. Click on Set as Default. 3 tips to make your browser fast Whichever web browser you use, there are some tips you should remember in order to keep it running optimally. Always use the most up-to-date version. Safari updates with macOS system updates, so make sure you install system updates when they become available.
Most browsers automatically update themselves when you close and reopen them. But if you keep them open permanently, they won’t update. So the easiest way to keep them updated is to quit them every now and again.
Don’t keep lots of tabs open at once. Open tabs, even those that are hidden, consume RAM, processor cycles, and energy. The more you have open, the slower your Mac will become. So close tabs you no longer need. Keep your Mac clean of junk Unnecessary files, including cache, cookies, language files and old updates can slow down your whole system, as they take more and more space. The simplest way to get rid of them is to use a dedicated app like. To quickly delete useless files on your Mac, follow the steps:.
Launch CleanMyMac X. Click Smart Scan. As you can see, setting your default web browser in macOS is very easy — choosing which browser to use maybe less so. Whichever browser you choose, you should maintain it to keep it running optimally, can help do that easily.