Looking for a tool to emulate different Internet browsers

Question

I am looking for a tool or a way to view my site in different browsers, such as IE7 and higher, and various versions of firefox.

I am new to CSS, but I have installed some software on my computer that does this for me. This created problems and I had to reinstall Windows. Therefore, I prefer to have some kind of web application to achieve the same goal and reliably show what my website looks like on IE8, for example.

Answer 1

In this case, an online solution such as Browserstack may be useful. You can test your web application in different browsers and different versions of browsers without having to install them yourself.

Answer 2

Other online browser sites:

http://spoon.net/browsers/
http://browsershots.org/
http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com/

Answer 3

Try http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage for IE 5.5 up, the emulator is not always perfect, but better than most. Most other major browsers have turned to quick release fixes, so if css now works in a standards-compliant browser, it should in the future.

Answer 4

This is good for testing IE http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage But as others have said, you cannot test the real thing better.

Answer 5

Another way is to use virtual machines, but this involves installing something like Windows XP and setting up snapshots for different versions of IE / firefox / chrome.

You can do this with virtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/

This is all you need to do if the site is hosted on the Internet (see below):

If you test your site locally, you can run a small web server on your main machine so that you can access it on a virtual machine.

You can use XAMMP for this - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html