Development Status
The original developer, Hong Jen Yee, had quit the project in early 2006 because he had become a full-time Linux user. The project was abandoned and the extension no longer worked with Firefox version 3.6 and later.
Other groups of developers forked IE Tab, making it compatible with Firefox versions 3.6 and later. These include the IE Tab 2 project (ietab.net) and the IE Tab Plus project (coralietab.mozdev.org). IE Tab Plus includes an "optional price comparison feature" that has been considered by users to be malware, but the author provides an alternative version without it.
Hong Jen Yee returned to IE Tab and updated and developed it to work with current versions of Firefox. He raised concerns about IE Tab 2 because he could not find the source code, and this resulted in a controversy about the validity of the licensing of IE Tab 2. The developers of IE Tab 2 showed that they shared the source code on request, and placed it in a publicly-available repository.
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