Anyone that has installed the new IE9 know if I can keep IE8 installed? I do a lot of web testing and don't want to update to IE9 if I loose IE8.
best way is to install a Virtual Machine
Per Microsoft:
If you are running Windows Vista or
Windows 7 on your computer, you can
install the Internet Explorer 9 Beta
to replace your existing version of
Internet Explorer. After you install
Internet Explorer 9, you can uninstall
it to restore the previously installed
version of Internet Explorer.
So no, it will overwrite IE8 (at least the Beta will. I suppose this is not guaranteed to be the same for the release version).
I use Virtual PC with images of the browsers I need to test, but also and more lately, IETester, http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage. It allows you to run multiple versions of IE side by side.
If you want to be able to play with the new features of IE9 without installing the entire browser (which will replace IE8) you can install the Platform Preview. The PP is stand-alone, includes the latest features and bug fixes and has been getting updated roughly every 8 weeks. You can get the latest Platform Preview at:
www.ietestdrive.com
FYI: the production IE 9 does not accurately reproduce IE 8. I've got a CSS issue I'm chasing down now because IE 9's IE 8 mode isn't the same as real IE 8.
If you are concerned with testing how your site looks in IE8/7, you can use the Developer Tools (press F12) to switch the Browser modes and Document modes so that IE9 interacts with the web server as a different user agent, and renders the HTML document according to the version rules.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-sg/ie/ff468705(en-us).aspx#_New_Dev_Tools
IE9 beta is released as a Windows update, so after installing it and playing around, you can remove it from Programs and Features -> Installed Updates, which will recover IE8.
hit f12 on ie9, it will pop up the debug console. In the menu there is a browser mode option where you can set the browser to display as ie8 and a bunch of other versions too.
Also, if you're mouse focus is on the console and you hit ctrl+r, it will clear your browser cache... This is a feature that all the other browser debuggers lack.. ability to quickly clear cache.... I'm rambling now.
The best way to see your site on old versions of IE is that:
If you have IE9+, open your current version of InternetExplorer, press F12, click on "Browser Mode" tab, then choose the version you want.
see screenshot here:
Works better than IE-tester, and easier than using virtual machine.
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When I try to debug it shows this dialog:
Error dialog
And when I clock "fix" It shows this:
Web Browsers dialog
I can't solve this problem, any suggestion? Also I am developing a react native app. But i don't think that's the problem...
I am running Intellij Idea in Elementary OS.
This is expected - debugging is only supported in Chrome and browsers of the Chrome family, as it's clearly stated in Help. So, when you start the debugger, the IDE will try to open Chrome regardless of the browser chosen in run configuration. You need to make sure that Chrome is installed and the correct path to it is specified in Settings | Tools | Web Browsers.
We used to support Firefox Remote Debugging (but without source maps) through the FireFox Remote run configuration, but our solution doesn't work in the latest Firefox versions due to changes in the protocol, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to fix it. We've made some progress recently, but there are still some blocking issues
related ticket: WEB-45986
Using either 20.0.1387.82 or 22.0.1457.0 (developer)
When I right-click and select Inspect Element, I get a vanilla Developer Tools dialogue:
not the one always pictured:
It looks identical to Chrome's debugger (though I've uninstalled Chrome), most notably absent, the icons on top row and the remote debug facility.
Anyone know how I can get Dragonfly working on my machine?
Opera ditched their Presto rendering engine and built a new browser (also called Opera) around Blink (Google's fork of Webkit). It doesn't support Dragonfly any more.
There are plans to port it to the new browser.
I recently installed ie11 on my Windows7 machine and do browser testing for all versions of ie on it in the document. I also do tests on Browserstack. I have client now that INSISTS I test on ie10 directly.
As you know, Windows won't let you run multiple version if ie, un-install ie directly, or reinstall an older version when a newer version is already installed. I don't want to have to uninstall/reinstall ie11, reinstall/install ie10.
Is there a work around where I can run both version without have to uninstall one or the other?
On modern.ie you can find free virtual machines for every version of Internet Explorer.
Press F12 and you can go backward to previous versions of IE (click on browser mode). First go to the website and then change browser mode (the opposite order won't work)
I need to test a Web application on different versions of IE (IE9, IE8 & IE7).
I found that IE9 provides the compatibility view for IE8 & IE7 so I had installed IE9 in my test system.
There is one header META tag "X-UA-Compatible" by which you can set the compatibility view But in my case we don't have access to the source files.
If some how from selenium or by any other way if we can dynamically set the "X-UA-Compatible" tag then It can resolve my problem. Please let me know if there is any good way to Test the WebApp in different version of IE (7,8 & 9) from Single windows machine/instance.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Please do share your experience with this.
Thanks.
For testing your web application on different version of IE you can use online test tools, IETester, IECollection, Microsoft TestDrive
or in IE 8 & 9 press F12 and select IE version from Browser Mode menu
You speak about compatibility mode. Not sure if you know this but if you dont, press F12 in IE 9 to open developer tools. From there, you can set rendering version. This is the way I test on different IE versions.
From the official source:
4 ways tp test...
Another solution, you can try is spoon.net/, which is online simulator for browsers. You can select different browsers & versions there. You could also find other similar online simulator.
Microsoft provide virtual machines for different versions of IE at http://modern.ie . So, on a single machine it is possible to have multiple test versions of IE by running your tests in a virtual machine.
Update Nov 2014: There is now a way to achieve this.
Spoon has a Selenium grid that runs all versions of IE (Chrome and Firefox too) on the same Windows dev machine.
It uses the Spoon virtual machine to achieve this, by virtualizing a selenium setup including all browser nodes.
Its 100% compatible with your existing selenium tests. You don't need to launch the nodes beforehard, they launch on demand when test code requires a specific browser/version via capabilities.
Disclaimer: I work at Spoon and helped build this.
So, I'm developing my rails applications on my mac, thro WEBrick at 0.0.0.0:3000 and I need to test how the layout are showing on PC running Windows with Internet Explorer 7 and IE8.
I have tried to test it thro Wine + Wine Bottler, but I can't access that point.
And now I'm thinking to install VirtualBox to give a try, but before doing this, it will be good to know from others if it will or not work for me in this case.
Any advice?
Thanks!
I use VirtualBox for interface testing. I've had no problems with it at all. I have an external drive with various disk images for firing up various versions of Windows and thus various versions of IE as well as Firefox and Chrome. Works a treat and no complaints.
We have used VirtualBox and a program called IETester:
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
It works well, even for IE6 although there are some very minor differences for IE6.
Makes it very quick to test in all versions of IE as you can have a tab for each.
Give it a go.