Different versions of Browsers or browser emulator

11
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I am developing a website in ASP.NET MVC, using the latest IE and Chrome for testing. It looks fine, but there are some quirks on older browsers like IE 6/7. Sadly, client base is rural, and I saw some people running IE 6 and 7 on their systems, this web site just doesn't look what it is.

Installing different versions and copying pasting an address 10-15 times is painful. I already have (all latest) Opera, Firefox, IE and Chrome. So, I am looking for emulating older browsers.

Is there any way, I can emulate browsers' different versions especially IE and Firefox.

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3 Answers

16
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You can use portable versions of Firefox to be able to run them simultaneously, as for IE you can use IE Collections which contains different versions of IE :

Utilu IE Collection contains the following versions of IE:

  • Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
  • Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
  • Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
  • Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
  • Internet Explorer 3.01 (3.01.2723)
  • Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925)
  • Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
  • Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
  • Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
  • Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)
10
votes

You can use http://browsershots.org/ This page creates screenshots in different browsers.

2
votes

It looks like IE is the most problematic browser when using open standard so u can test using http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Internet-Explorer-Collection-Download-105889.html.