Yesterday I wrote about the inability of many MLS systems to display or function properly when using Firefox. Here are a few solutions to that problem for those of us that use Firefox exclusively.

The first selection is the one I use and it is called IE Tab. IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. With a simple click on the installed status bar icon you can switch the page rendering from Firefox to Internet Explorer and back. It will allow you to run ActiveX controls (IE only feature) and it fools the referring website into thinking that it really is being viewed by IE not just a tab in Firefox.

The next extension is IE View. IE View lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to always load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing. IE View actually launches Internet Explorer as a separate program. Personally I don’t think it is as convenient as IE Tab.

The final one I will mention is IE View Lite. This is a cut down version of IE View. All the same user interface and features are there. It has a right click menu item to open a page in IE and a list of sites to always open in IE. It can close tabs automatically and send additional parameters to the executable. Everything has just been rebuilt from the ground up to be smaller and more efficient.

In all cases these extensions will allow you to run your local MLS sites directly in IE. If you know of any other solution feel free to comment here.