Virtual Machine is a more complex solution. Running Internet Explorer on a virtual machine Always remember to switch back to Safari after youโ€�re done with testing. The website that you are currently working with in Safari will be automatically refreshed to imitate IE or Edge experience, on Mac.Navigate to User Agent and you can select your preferred browser, Firefox, Chrome or IE or Edge in our case.Now you get access to Developer Tools (Develop Menu) which lets to execute many tasks including simulating browsers on Safari.Check โ€�Show Develop menu in menu barโ€� at the bottom.Here is how you can simulate Internet Explorer on a Mac without downloading a security risk: Using developer Tools:
But as a web-developer, running IE or edge on Mac can be useful for testing how the app or web-site is going to get rendered on the browser. From 2005 onwards, Microsoft discontinued support for Internet Explorer for Mac and hence for the users of future versions of MacOS, installing IE or a newer Microsoft browser, Edge, on a Mac was not possible.ย Some torrents provide downloads but we would not recommend torrent downloads as these are potential security risk, unsafe and unreliable.Īs a normal user, not having IE or Edge on Mac might not be a big deal. Internet explorer was the default browser for all platforms until Apple released its own browser โ€�Safariโ€� in 2003.