Any easy way to check site in Multiple browser?

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Again with release of IE9, we have to install one more version of this browser in our desktop for website design compatibility checkup.

We have IE6, IE7, IE8 and now IE9. We also check web design in Firefox, Safari, Opera & Chrome.

Problem is IE, with so many version released, its really difficult to keep all version in one machine. Do you guys facing similar problem while working on cross browser compatibility checking? Please advice and share you best method on how do you manage all these browsers.

Thank you.

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IE Tester seems to be the best solution out there at the moment in my opinion.

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My preference is this:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

With an XP VLE install CD and a key off an old dead laptop. Surely you can find an old dead PC with a XP sticker on the side.

I also run Win2k for a native IE6 test, OSX Leoptard and Ubuntu 9.10 under it from a Win7 host… just to be thorough.

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+1 here for spoon. :slight_smile:

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Microsoft Virtual PC - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en

Windows XP with IE6/7/8 and Vista with IE7/8 images to use with the above (regardless of what Windows version you have installed on your PC) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

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yes, its little buggy, but it works and you can just work on it like a normal browser but only one thing that our developers are still having difficulties is, they can not install IE DOM Inspector. A add-in for IE that allows you to inspect and edit the live HTML DOM. This is extremely handy tool for our developer.

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Hi, could you please elaborate on what you wrote. It looks interesting but didn’t get the meaning out of it :slight_smile:

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Do you have a Mac or a PC? The options available differ slightly depending on which you use. I use virtual machines on my Mac with versions of Windows and their browser versions, with the latest Mac browsers on the Mac proper and older browsers on an old Mac laptop. But there are also handy online testing tools, like Browsershots, [URL=“https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.htm”]Browserlab or things like [URL=“http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage”]IE tester for versions of IE.

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I can also recommend the Spoon browser packages. It works like IETester but uses the actual browser shell. :slight_smile:

Source: http://spoon.net/browsers/

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Microsoft’s recommended solution is to use their supplied disk images with Microsoft Virtual PC.

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Although IETester crashes on my pc at odd intervals, it’s the easiest solution (and free)

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We use PC. I found IETester is a nice offline application which simulates many IE version and faster then other two.