With BrowserShot automatically test your site on 49 Browsers


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For those of you that are webmasters this might be really useful. You probably know what a hassle it is to check your website in different browsers because you have to download and install so many. Even if you keep them installed, it might be annoying to have all of those programs that do the same thing sitting on your computer at one time. Well those days are now over thanks to Browershots. Browsershots is a website where you can enter your site’s url and it will take screen captures of your site in all of the major plus many smaller browsers. You can then view the images and see which ones your site doesn’t look right in. There is a huge list of browsers you can test on including linux and mac browsers as well. For those of you who are confused at this point as to why you would need to test in different browsers, it is because every site renders differently in different browsers (so it could look messed up in one and fine in another). So next time instead of downloading all of those programs just use Browsershots.org.

Don’t expect to get results right away, once you set Browsershots in motion it actually takes screen shots of your site from each browser which can take a while.  For my website it took around a half an hour which isn’t too bad, you simply set it into motion and come back to your bookmark later.

Check it out

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January 8, 2008 | Filed Under Web 2.0 

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6 Responses to “With BrowserShot automatically test your site on 49 Browsers”

  1. webrunner on MyAvatars 0.2 January 8th, 2008 10:30 pm

    thanks for the tool link
    I didn’t even know there were that many browsers out there.

  2. Gary Hudson on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 1:04 am

    This looks like just the tool I could have used when installing blogs. Some of the blogs I installed worked fine in Firefox but when I went back to IE7 some didn’t display properly. I will now install this tool. Thanks for mentioning it.

  3. Mathias on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 4:36 pm

    This is great! I also didn’t know there were this many browsers! I’ll be using this tool for my website or if I want to test a new one… Thank you for this great post!

  4. Anxiety on MyAvatars 0.2 January 13th, 2008 1:23 am

    I think that it’s enough to check up in 4 main browsers: msie, opera, firefox and safari. And this service is very slow

  5. Lordvader on MyAvatars 0.2 January 28th, 2008 3:40 pm

    This is a great utility, checking now.

  6. iPod freak on MyAvatars 0.2 March 23rd, 2008 10:45 pm

    Yep, this is a great tool that I’ve discovered a while ago and have used it for web design purposes ever since. A must have freebie bookmark!

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