Browser simulator?

**Carstonio** · Aug 6, 2009, 06:23

For testing CSS, is there an application that will simulate a wide variety of browsers? I have the User Agent Switcher in Firefox, but it doesn't appear to change the rendering of pages. I understand that installing multiple versions of, say, Internet Explorer for this purpose can create problems.

**RyanReese** · Aug 6, 2009, 08:34

Well by default you can install as many versions as you wish-just make sure that you don't override the default profile, but rather save it somewhere else.

You can use a virtualOS to get multiple versions of IE, or use something like multipleIE's

**AlexDawson** · Aug 6, 2009, 11:55

You would either want to use a virtual machine (which would allow you to simulate multiple versions of an OS allowing rendering to occur for each independant version of IE) or you would want to go with something like IETester which granted does have flaws but it is better than nothing (if you don't want to configure Virtual PC).

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

**kohoutek** · Aug 6, 2009, 12:38

You can try out Xenocode's Browser Sandbox. You can run that application online. http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/

**anticowboyism** · Aug 6, 2009, 13:12

Ok, I can't post urls yet (forum bs), but try this:

httpsCOLONSLASHSLASHbrowserlab.adobe.com/index.html#

It's the best!

**candlebain** · Aug 6, 2009, 15:42

Not that I'm an expert by any means, but my Mac has VMWare Fusion set up to run XP with IE6. That at least gives me the most problematic browser I worry about supporting. I'm told I can install multiple versions of XP if I really wanted to...haven't opted in so far...