Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer
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Cyril Roger

“Microsoft's now defunct browser for Mac”

by Cyril Roger about Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer for Mac was Microsoft's free web browser designed to run on Mac computers. While you can still download Internet Explorer for Mac from this page, it is important to note that the product is no longer supported by Microsoft.

Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and does not provide further security or performance updates. Since the browser is no longer designed to handle the requirements of most modern web pages, we strongly advise you to try Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera instead. Alternatively, just check out all of the other browsers available for Mac.

However, if you really can't help yourself and are an Internet Explorer nostalgic, you might want to try it for a trip down memory lane. However, for normal internet browsing we'd really discourage you from using it. We couldn't even render the Softonic website in it and indeed, most websites failed to load properly. Internet Explorer for Mac is incredibly slow, buggy, prone to crashes and freezing and is woefully short of security settings.

Since development finished in 2005, Internet Explorer for Mac doesn't offer even the most basic features that you would consider a prerequisite on any browser nowadays like tabs, extensions, saved sessions or private data management.

There are absolutely no compelling reasons to use Internet Explorer for Mac. If you've just switched from Windows to Mac, try one of the browsers suggested above instead.

Pros
  • Nostalgic
Cons
  • Doesn't render web pages properly
  • Constantly crashes
  • Slow and insecure
  • Abandoned software
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Internet Explorer (31) User reviews

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  • darrenmars darrenmars
    User reviews
    1

    .. why it's Abandonware. I thought needed to use IE to access the Australian Business Register website, because it only works with IE or Netscape - It simply won't work with any other browser and i... More

  • Dave Hill Dave Hill
    User reviews
    1
    • Not good
    • 1/10
    ADVICE!

    If you are using any browser other than IE and you have a website online, do not D/L IE for MAC. First, you don't want anything that might potentially crash your machine (and that is hard to do on... More

  • yourmom419 yourmom419
    User reviews
    1

    I downloaded this just to see if it would work as well on my macbook pro with OSX 10.6.8
    I tried it out, and it opened Google. As opposed to the menu bar on the top, it stuck all of the options o... More

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