If you've ever tried to run the Classic and OS X versions of Internet Explorer at the same time, you'll find that it doesn't work. There was some discussion on Omni's OS X Talk mailing list the other day about this problem, and the answer came down to the fact that both IE's use the same creator code. So when you launch one version, the OS then prevents you from launching the other. Zachery Bir came up with a quick command-line fix for the problem (assuming you have the Dev Tools installed):
I would use some caution with this tip if, like me, you use an alias of bookmarks for one IE in both X and OS 9. I'm not too sure how the system would handle trying to share a bookmark file if two different apps both wanted it open for potential write access -- anyone know?
% cd /Applications (Mac OS 9)/Internet Explorer 5/Of course, you could also use one of the GUI tools to change the creator code on IE5/Classic. You simply have to change it to something that isn't in use by another program; Zachery chose "MIEC" and that seemed to work fine.
% /Developer/Tools/Setfile -c MIEC Internet Explorer
I would use some caution with this tip if, like me, you use an alias of bookmarks for one IE in both X and OS 9. I'm not too sure how the system would handle trying to share a bookmark file if two different apps both wanted it open for potential write access -- anyone know?
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