#Ghostlab cross browser testing how to
#Ghostlab cross browser testing software
#Ghostlab cross browser testing trial

This folder is going to be used to transfer data between the Host OS and the guest OS. VirtualBox settings: Create a read-only shared folder.VirtualBox settings: Enable the network adapter, but do not connect the VM to a real network.IE6 XP image for VirtualBox on Linux about 771MB.IE6 XP image for VirtualBox on Mac about 717MB.IE6 XP image for VirtualBox on Windows about 764MB.(Images are also available for other virtualization products such as VMware, Parallels, Virtual PC and Hyper-V) ova file inside and run it to import it into VirtualBox. Download the IE6 XP image for VirtualBox from the modern.IE website.The instructions below are written with VirtualBox in mind.)

#Ghostlab cross browser testing software

Virtualization software ( VirtualBox is recommended, it is free even for commercial use.

All files are going to be shared with the virtual machine through a shared folder What? How?.

#Ghostlab cross browser testing trial

After signing up, you can get a 30-minute free trial that grants you access to a lot of desktop and mobile browsers, directly within your browser.īefore setting up the machine, download all necessary files (see 'Download summary' at the end of this section). If you don't need too much flexibility, and quickly want to test a page, I recommend to take a look at. Unless you intentionally want to test applications in old browsers, just get the latest version of the browser and let the auto-updater take care of managing the version. When this guide was written, the releases were not as frequent, and thus it was useful to set up a set of browsers without having to look back. These days, most web browsers use some form of rapid releases with automated updates. IE8 is the last supported version of Internet Explorer on Windows XP, which is still used a lot.

#Ghostlab cross browser testing how to

This guide teaches how to get IE6 and 7 as well, but these browsers are already dead, or close to dead. Unfortunately, Apple dropped support for Windows, so you need to get a Mac or run OS X in a VM to test pages in Safari. Safari: 5.1.7 (Windows) + Latest version.Quite a lot of users are still using Opera 12 though (when Opera 15 was released, the UX significantly changed). Since Opera 15, Opera uses the same engine as Chrome. Release notes | For developers | Rapid release schedule

Firefox: Latest ESR release + latest stable major version.

Rules of thumb: Which browsers should be included?

Clicky - This site offers statistics for individual versions screenshot.

Wikimedia - Go to the bottom to open the latest report, SquidReportClients.

W3Counter - View archived reports: January 2012 (Choose the last month).

StatCounter - Statistic: Browser version | Time period: Last month screenshot.

Can I use - Browser usage table, based on data from StatCounter and other sources.

Each site is suffixed by a brief usage guide. For this reason, I refer to Usage share of web browsers on Wikipedia, and the following sites for the latest browser version information.

Time needed per browser (install & config).

Rules of thumb: Which browsers should be included?.