Browserling is a new cross browser testing web application built with stackVM. They run IE 5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, FireFox, Opera, and Safari instances on their servers, and you can use these browsers remotely through a virtual machine inside Google Chrome on your local machine. So unlike browsershots.org (which is free or something for-pay like LitmusApp) which just sends you back screenshots of your specified web page as seen in different browsers, Browserling actually lets you interact with the web page. But...
I haven't been able to get it to work. Or, rather, it works, but it shows me a random page rather than the one I request. So not very useful on that count. Hopefully they get it worked out because this would be a really great tool.
Got it to work correctly one time, so it is possible. Pretty unresponsive, but still cool that it can sort of work. With so much javascript these days (tabs, sliders, lightbox pop ups, etc...) you really need to interact with the page in order to test it. Not sure this replaces browsershots at the moment, but it's a nice addition, and if they can get a little better performance it will be great.
I keep trying this every couple of days hoping it might work, but so far the one time noted above is the only success I've ever had. That must be some sort of record for a web service.
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I haven't been able to get it to work. Or, rather, it works, but it shows me a random page rather than the one I request. So not very useful on that count. Hopefully they get it worked out because this would be a really great tool.
- jim 11-24-2010 2:49 pm
Got it to work correctly one time, so it is possible. Pretty unresponsive, but still cool that it can sort of work. With so much javascript these days (tabs, sliders, lightbox pop ups, etc...) you really need to interact with the page in order to test it. Not sure this replaces browsershots at the moment, but it's a nice addition, and if they can get a little better performance it will be great.
- jim 11-24-2010 6:51 pm
I keep trying this every couple of days hoping it might work, but so far the one time noted above is the only success I've ever had. That must be some sort of record for a web service.
- jim 12-14-2010 7:57 pm