The easier option is to use awesome ievms script developed by Greg Thornton. IE virtual machine images are available at modern.ie site (provided by Microsoft) and can be directly downloaded from there and loaded in VirtualBox. Latest version at the time of writing this article is VirtualBox 5.0.10 (x86/amd64) and I tried it on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite). Here are the steps to setup IE on Mac using virtual box.įirst download VirtualBox for OSX hosts. Installing and using internet explorer on Mac is pretty convenient and can increase your productivity. Install IE on your mac using Virtualbox.Use some cloud based tool which provides IE on cloud.Have a windows machine and work on two machines.If you want to test your site on IE then these are the options: For people who use Macbook as their primary machine, testing a site on Internet explorer (IE8, IE9, IE10) can be really painful.
