For people who use Macbook as their primary machine, testing a site on Internet explorer (IE8, IE9, IE10) can be really painful. If you want to test your site on IE then these are the options:

How to get Internet Explorer for Mac? Although launching Internet Explore natively on Mac isn’t possible, but there are ways to simulate IE on Mac. For those who develop apps and web-based technology, it can be useful and of assistance to see how the application or web design work on Safari, IE, and other web browsers. Thankfully, without. Or you can download Microsoft Remote Desktop (on your Mac) instantly from Softpedia. Launch the app and authenticate using your Microsoft account. Wait for the invitation to use Internet Explorer on your Apple gear. Hit Refresh and start running Internet Explorer Technical Preview. At this point, you should be looking at the IE interface.

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Since SharePoint Open with Explorer uses ActiveX technology, it's only supported in Internet Explorer. Open with Explorer doesn't work in Windows with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Mozilla FireFox, or on the Mac platform. The ActiveX control is only needed when you're working with files in Windows File Explorer.
IE Emulators only mimic an Internet Explorer browser screen and usually runs slower than the IE browser on a real device. For example, an IE test on Mac can’t be reliably done on an emulator or VM since developers and QA testers cannot mimic the exact CSS support and how certain interactions would work on a real device IE browser.
Although the Internet Explorer is not officially available for Mac OS X, you can still use it using a free Internet service from Microsoft called Modern IE. Using this service, we can easily use Internet Explorer for Mac without any issues.

Have a windows machine and work on two machines.
Use some cloud based tool which provides IE on cloud.
Install IE on your mac using Virtualbox.

Installing and using internet explorer on Mac is pretty convenient and can increase your productivity. Here are the steps to setup IE on Mac using virtual box.

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Download VirtualBox
First download VirtualBox for OSX hosts. Latest version at the time of writing this article is VirtualBox 5.0.10 (x86/amd64) and I tried it on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite). Install it with default options.
IE virtual machine images
IE virtual machine images are available at modern.ie site (provided by Microsoft) and can be directly downloaded from there and loaded in VirtualBox.
ievms script
The easier option is to use awesome ievms script developed by Greg Thornton. Assuming you have curl installed on you Mac, run this to setup IE virtual machines:
This will install IE6 to IE 10 virtual machines on your virtual box.
VirtualBox UI with images
Here is how virtualbox will look like with IE virtual machines installed:
Note that the images are pretty large its better to download only if you are on high speed broadband (With 8Mbps broadband it took me 2-3 hours).
Install specific IE
In case you want to install specific machines e.g. IE8 and IE9 then use this command:
Installing Windows 10 and IEs withot ievms script
In case you run into problems with ievms script, you can follow these following instruction to install Windows 10 (or older IEs) without ievms script.
How to run windows 10 on Mac using VirtualBox
Recover or re-install an IE image
To recover (or to re-install an IE version) from a failed installation you may have to delete appropriate IE version files from ~/.ievms dir (assuming it is installed location) and remove corresponding entry from virtualbox ui tool (with “Delete all files” option). Deleting an entry from virtualbox ui tool with “Delete all files” should remove corresponding IE version file from ~/'VirtualBox VMs'/ directory. This also removes the entry from VirtualBox registry xml file ~/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml. Here is how remove entry looks like in virtualbox ui tool:
Starting IE Virtual Machine
To start a specific virtual machine (e.g. IE8 Win XP), double click on it from VirtualBox. This will start the restricted windows in virtualbox. IE can be started just like you do in windows ui. It looks like this:
VirtualBox IE viewing modes
Virtual Box has options to run virtual machine in these three modes (can be selected from “View” menu of VirtualBox window):
1. Fullscreen ([Command] + F)
2. Seamless [Command] + L
3. Scale mode [Command] + C
All these modes makes working with IE virtual machine pretty convenient. When I’m working only in IE only then I prefer fullscreen mode. When I need to switch between IE and Mac then I use seamless or scale mode.

Internet Explorer For Mac Modern Iep

Internet Explorer For Mac Microsoft

Download VirtualBox

IE virtual machine images

ievms script

VirtualBox UI with images

Install specific IE

Installing Windows 10 and IEs withot ievms script

Recover or re-install an IE image

Starting IE Virtual Machine

VirtualBox IE viewing modes

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