For the recent linux adopters who just can’t live without IE or the webdeveloper in linux who needs to test their site to see IE compatibility can now use the latest version of IEs4Linux 2.99.0, which come with many improvement from it’s previous versions.

Though personally I don’t suggest people use IE over secure browsers like Firefox and netscape and many others, but sometimes webdevelopers needs to test their products for backward compatibilty, and of several ways to do it ( you have the freedom of choice) is to use IEs4Linux. One important thing to point out is that this is IE version 6 not 7; but development work of IE7 is currently going on.

Here is the new version change log:

* Fixed IE7 checksum error
* Better Evolt mirror selection (thanks to Hendrik Heuer)
* Install MS Core Fonts (thanks to Mike Kronenberg)
* Use curl if wget is absent
* xdg-utils updated
* Detect Darwin (Mac OS X)
* Changed icon to PNG (better compatibility)
* Added registry keys to https in IE7 (thanks to Jim Burns)
* Fixed bug with security level options (thanks to Jim Burns)
* Fixed bug with permissions on Gentoo (thanks to Bas Westerbaan)
* wget/curl use IE 6 user-agent
* Disabled menu icon installation
* Small fixes and better code

For more information read: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/49

You need wine and cabextract to install this in your linux system. and installing this is as simple as running the ies4linux executable. Here are some screenshots: