Multi-Browser Viewer Features

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How it Works

Standalone Browsers and Simulators: Application Virtualization Technology

Multi-Browser Viewer's standalone browsers require no additional setup, configuration, client, or device drivers, and should run seamlessly on any Windows desktop. The browser application itself is unchanged and comparable to a locally installed browser. Nothing is altered to the browser itself, only its surrounding running environment has been virtualized, thus the standalone browser still uses the same rendering and JavaScript engines.

Unlike hardware virtualization solutions such as VMware & Virtual PC, which emulate the underlying hardware and therefore require an entire copy of the host OS, application virtualization emulates only the OS features required for the browser’s execution.

The core of the technology is the virtual kernel, which is a lightweight implementation of the core Windows operating system APIs, including the file system, registry, process, and threading subsystems, completely implemented within the Windows user-mode space.

The virtual kernel is embedded within each virtualized browser executable, allowing virtual browsers to be executed without any separate client install.

Multi-Browser Viewer Basic Usage

1. Standalone Virtualized Web Browsers

1. Click on the "Standalone browsers" tab or select a browser to launch from the drop down menu within Multi-Browser Viewer application. All Standalone browsers will also be available from the Windows Start menu if you installed the full version.
   
   
2. Select the "Standalone Browsers" that you would like to test in. Web browsers load instantaneously and can run alongside each other. Each browser still utlizes its own, default rendering engine, as if it was running on it's own isolated machine.
   
   
3. Simply browse and test a web site as you would normally do. Now you can test pages on a local Intranet, pages secured by a login or token screen, as well as Javascript, Ajax and Flash interactivity. The only true way to really cross browser test is still by using the actual browsers.

2. Standalone Mobile Browsers

1. Click on the "Mobile Browsers" tab or select a mobile browser to launch from the drop down file menu within Multi-Browser Viewer application. All Standalone mobile browsers can also be launched from the Windows Start menu if you installed the full complete version.
   
   
2. Select the "Mobile Browsers" that you would like to test in. The selected mobile browser / simulator will launch as a standalone application.
   
   
3. Simply browse and test a web site as you would normally do if you were physically holding the mobile phone in your hands. Now you can test pages on a local Intranet, pages secured by a login screen and other dynamic pages.
   

1. Select the browsers and operating systems that you would like to compare or test. The Multi-Browser Viewer Network currently supports 50 browsers and 3 Operating Systems - Windows, Mac OS and Linux(Ubuntu).
   
   
2. Specify the publicly accessible URL that you would like to cross browser test or compare.
   
   
3. The Multi-Browser Viewer application connects to our Network and loads the URL in a network of machines, all loaded with the different browser versions.
   
   
4. A high quality, full page screen capture of the requested web page URL is taken.
   
   
5. The screen capture's are then downloaded and displayed locally in the Multi-Browser Viewer application.
   
   
6. The full page screenshots, HTML source code and a MHT file(HTML archive file) are all saved on the local machine in a time stamped folder so you can compare the URL over time.
   
   
7. Use Multi-Browser Viewer's HTML validation and HTML auto-correct features to fix layout and other HTML errors.
   
   
8. Click on the "Compare Images" button, to compare screenshots side-by-side or overlaid on top of one another, which will immediately highlight any major discrepancies.