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IE8 in 2022

I like using old browsers to test things on. My reasoning goes that if it works in both an old browser and a new browser, it is fairly likely to work in the ones in-between.

Also, by developing on the old browser, you fix the trickiest problems first.

Now, Internet Explorer 8 is the oldest version of Internet Explorer you can still get test VMs for:

• https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Unfortunately it doesn't work with most sites online:

This turns out to be because more modern version of TLS are not enabled.

You can enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 from the Tools - Internet Options - Advanced tab:

Now sites will work again:

CAUTION: Of course IE8 isn't supported and likely has lots and lots of security problems, so you might not want to allow people to use it to access your infrastructure anyway.