: Browser testing - Ideas on how to tackle it efficiently Browser testing, the bane of any web designers life! Are there any tools and/or ways in which I can efficiently test different browsers

@Marchetta884

Another possible client side solution could be: BrowseEmAll

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@Hamaas447

I have found this software quite useful in the past. Install it as an app on windows and it allows your to view sites in IE from 5.5 to the latest :)

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

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@Candy875

Another newish online services is BrowserLab from Adobe. To run different versions of IE locally you can run different virtual machines from Microsoft as described on superuser: superuser.com/questions/74918/how-do-i-install-multiple-versions-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-7

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@Sarah324

You can use a website like browsershots, Browsera, Cross Browser Testing, Multi-Browser Viewer, BrowserSeal, and Multi Browser vmWare Appliance

You shouldn't need to be checking that many browsers, however. With the exception of Internet Explorer which seems to make radical changes with every release, most of the modern browser only make incremental changes that rarely break their consistency in rendering pages. This means if you test in the latest Firefox, Chrome, or Safari it almost certainly will work in an older version. Additionally, most of the users of these browsers update their browser to a newer version quite rapidly compared to IE users who tend to hang on to older versions for far too long.

To keep your testing simple I would do the following:

In Windows test Chrome, Firefox, IE7-9. You can test the older versions of IE using either a tool like IETester or use the Developer Tools in IE to simulate older browsers.

In a Mac test Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.

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