At the time of writing, a single user "lifetime" license costs $19, which is not expensive if you really need this. The only downside to this whole operation is that IE Tab is only available for Google Chrome, and that it is "trialware" which means it will stop working at some point and require a license. In the IE Tab options, you can set Auto URLs to automatically open specific web addresses with wildcard support.Īs you can see above, now my Hikvision admin page displays properly and allows me to configure it.Click on the IE Tab icon in the Chrome toolbar if you have it pinned to reload the page in IE mode, or right click anywhere in the page > select IE Tab options > and select Open in IE Tab (new tab) or Open in current tab.
First go to the page you know only opens properly in Internet Explorer.If you have a page that only opens in Internet Explorer, you can add the URL in the IE Tab options page to automatically launch the page in IE mode, which saves you messing around to reload specific pages from the browser's context menu. You can also set specific URLs to automatically open in IE mode Now you can reload pages in IE mode (new or current tab).It also avoids using Internet Explorer, which is still installed in Windows 10 and earlier, other extensions simply redirect pages to Internet Explorer, which does not exist in Windows 11.The extension may direct you to download it too. IE Tab requires that the IE Tab Helper application be installed, you can download it from their site here.Click on the "Try it Now" button, this will take you to the Chrome web store.Go to the IE Tab website, there you will also find info on pricing.But first, a little disclaimer: Neowin is not affiliated with IE Tab or its developer Blackfish Software, LLC, and we were not employed to write an article about their software extension. However, there is still an option available that sadly, is not free, meaning once again Microsoft has failed to support its customers properly and we have to look for third-party solutions to problems that Microsoft itself created, such as another example where it has become increasingly difficult to set a default browser other than Edge in Windows.Ī little add-on for Chrome called IE Tab completely reproduces the effect of visiting a site in Internet Explorer, so much so that the toolbar even looks it belongs to IE. Although the page reloaded in Internet Explorer mode, it still failed to load the admin applet, meaning this workaround is not for me.
The page does not work in any major browser except Internet Explorer 11, which I still have installed in my Windows 10 PC. You can see the steps taken to attempt to open my Hikvision doorbell camera admin page.