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Portable apps of legacy browsers versus virtualization (VMWare, etc.) for cross-browser compatibility check?

June 25, 2008 7:50am

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#1 / Jun 25, 2008 7:50am

Danny T.
426 posts

Haven’t had my opportunities to check out my site in legacy browsers, and was wondering whether or not anyone can recommend any portable app versions of browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5/6, Opera 8’s and lowers, and Mozilla Firefox 1 and 2.

I’m aware of PortableApps.com, but that’s obvious I suppose. Any other places? Furthermore, what do you all do to check cross-browser consistency? Is there some hidden gem application that streamlines the process? 😊

I’d use VMWare, but I just think it’s overkill for such a task.
#2 / Jun 25, 2008 8:00am

Mark Bowen
12637 posts

Try http://browsershots.org. That should hopefully get you going 😉

There are also versions of IE 5.5, 6.0 & 7.0 for OSX using Darwine that you can use too if you wish. Pretty sure they render as a PC would. Browsershots is definitely something work taking a look at though.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark