Open in IE™

Open links in IE (Internet Explorer)

What is Open in IE™?

Open in IE™ is a Chrome extension that gives you the convenience of opening any link in Internet Explorer directly from Chrome. After easy installation and set-up, users simply right-click on a link and choose to open it in IE, privately or normally. The extension can even identify links within text content on a webpage which aren’t hyperlinked. It's not affiliated with Microsoft or IE; it's independently developed and maintained.

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 2.83 (18)

Version: 0.1.5 (Last updated: 2024-06-09)

Creation date: 2017-10-14

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
notifications
nativeMessaging

Size: 33.03K

Email: qa*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 9767 ▼ 36

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#3674 in Tools ▼ 7 #67 in internet keyword 41 ▼ 5 #126 in machine keyword 23 ▲ 2 #269 in system keyword 16 ▼ 8

Other platforms

Open in IE™ (v0.1.3resigned1)

2.85

(26) 3,452+

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Open in IE™ addon gives you the ability to open any link in an Internet Explorer page from Chrome.

Note 1: after installing the addon, you need to connect it with native applications (i.e. IE) on your machine. To make this connection, a separate patch is provided in GitHub. Please download and install this patch from: https://github.com/alexmarcoo/open-in-native-client/releases

Follow the instruction on the above GitHub page to download and install the related patch to your system. After installing, the "Open in IE™" addon in your Chrome browser can communicate with IE on your Windows machine.

Note 2: before using the addon, please open the option's page and make sure the path to IE is correct based on your Operating System. For example, the path to IE in Windows 10 is: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Next, please follow the below steps to open desired links in IE.

a. Right-click on any link and then click on the Open link in IE (from the context-menu). b. You can choose to open the window in private (incognito) or normal mode (see the addon's options page). c. It captures the link from any text content within the page (i.e. for those links that are not hyperlinked). d. You can set the IE path in your machine from the options page.

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