![]() BrowserShots (free and used to be my favorite, although the slowness made alternatives more attractive).The upside however is that most of these allow easy summarizing of screenshots so you don't have to start session after another and get screenshots. The downside is that you can't interact with it. But contrary to the previous, don't grant interactive access to the actual machines but only to get screenshots. ![]() If you don't need interactivity and or need a cheaper solution (note that this method may not always be cheaper, do a little research before making assumptions) there are also services online that, like the previous one, have access to real browser/OS environments. Sometimes causing errors that don't occur in the real browser, and maybe not having bugs that the real browser would have. The downside is that these emulations are often less stable than the real client, and are even harder to debug with because they don't run in the natural environment of the browser. In the past, there were also native Mac applications (such as ies4osx), or as a Windows application which requires a VM if you don't have Windows (such as IETester or MultipleIEs). ![]() Internet Explorer for Mac the Easy Way, 2011-09,.Check one of these articles to get that up and running: Microsoft offers free VM images of simplified Windows installations for the purposes of testing Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge ( download). You may or may not know this, but you do not need to get an official copy of Microsoft Windows for these virtual machines. You can use VirtualBox (free and open-source, similar to VMWare or Parallels) to create one or more virtual machines on your computer. There is also CrossBrowserTesting, browserling/ testling, which seem to have similar services although I haven't used these myself. Both of these also support setting up a tunnel to/from your own machine so any local hostnames will work fine. You'll be able to pick a browser of choice, enter a url and use a real OS with the real browser and test and interact as much as you need. Use something like SauceLabs or BrowserStack. There's three different methods that I recommend: In the advanced disk options select "use and existing disk" and find the VMDK file you just created.Start VMWare Fusion and create a new virtual machine.This will probably take a while (It takes around 30 minutes per disk image on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook w/ 2Gb RAM). Mv "output.vmdk" ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/ Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following commands, replacing input.vhd and output.vmdk with the name of the VHD file you're working on and the name you want your resulting disk image to have: /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk -f vpc "input.vhd" "output.vmdk" Select the new VDI file you've just created as the boot hard disk.Start Virtual Box and create a new virtual machine.VBoxManage modifyvdi "output.vdi" compact Mv "output.vdi" ~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/ VBoxManage convertdd temp.bin "output.vdi" Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following sequence of commands, replacing input.vhd with the name of the VHD file you're starting from and output.vdi with the name you want your final disk image to have: /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O raw -f vpc "input.vhd" temp.bin Download Q.app from and put it in your /Applications folder (you will need it to convert the disk images into a format VMWare/Virtual Box can use)Īt this point, the process depends on which VM software you're using.Extract the disk images using cabextract which is available from MacPorts or as source code (Thanks to Clinton). ![]()
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