Multi-Browser Viewer Features

Feature Overview | Supported Browsers | How it works | Screenshots | Demo

Feature Overview

• 20 Standalone Virtualized Browsers
  Run 20 real web browsers on the same machine! Our virtual application technology allows you to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, side by side for example. Ideal for cross browser testing or for “locked down” corporate machines that aren’t allowed to run the latest browsers by their security administrators.
  • For more information about how the Virtual Application Technology works see “How it Works”.
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• 4 Standalone Mobile Browsers or Simulators
  With more and more people accessing the web from their smart phones like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure your web site works correctly on all major mobile web browsers. Traditionally it has been a time consuming and a difficult task to set up individual mobile simulators. Multi-Browser Viewer now includes 4 standalone virtualized mobile simulators, enabling you to seamlessly test your web site on the leading mobile browsers.
  
  • For more information about how the Virtual Application Technology works see “How it Works”.
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• Exclusive: iPhone Mobile Safari Browser Simulator for Windows
  Multi-Browser Viewer v3 is also the only cross browser testing software solution that includes a fully featured iPhone browser simulator for Windows, which have been developed using the same underlying Webkit rendering engine to give you an excellent indication of what your website will look like on an actual Apple iPhone device using the Mobile Safari browser. The iPhone Mobile Safari simulator for windows includes all the functionality required to fully test your mobile web site, including Zoom functionality, a customizable User agent, HTML page source view as well as Portrait or Landscape view.
  
  
• 54 Screen Capture Image browsers
  Multi-Browser Viewer has widest range of traditional screenshot testing browsers available, with 11 Mac browsers, 26 Windows browsers and 17 Linux browsers. Load any publicly accessible URL in any of the more than 50 web browsers. A full page, high quality screenshot is then taken and saved locally on your machine, where you can identify any potential rendering errors using Multi-Browser Viewer’s “Compare Images” function. By default all screenshot images are taken at 1024px wide and saved in PNG format in a time stamped folder - "My Documents\Multi-Browser Viewer"
  
  • For more information about how the browser screenshot images are generated see “How it Works”.
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• Screenshot Comparison Function (“Onion Skin” or “Side-by-Side”)
  As a designer you want to ensure that your design is pixel perfect.  Multi-Browser Viewer’s screenshot comparison feature, enables you to place any two screenshots conveniently next to each other or can be overlaid on top of each other. A slider bar and other filter views allows you to clearly see any differences in the rendered page.
  
  
• HTML Source Code and Webpage Archive (MHT) Automatically Saved
  Multi-Browser Viewer also saves a copy of your HTML source code and a webpage archive file in a time stamped folder for each new testing session.
  
  
• Spell Check any Webpage
  Now you can easily spell check the completed webpage to see if any spelling errors were missed during the final stages of your development. The spell checker supports 4 languages – English, Spanish, German and French. The spell checker also has a custom dictionary, which enables you to add any custom words to your spell checking library.
  
  
• Multi-Language Support
  Multi-Browser Viewer has now been translated and is available in 5 languages, including English, Spanish, German, French and Russian.
  
  
• HTML and Webpage Comparison between two dates
  Multi-Browser Viewer’s new compare HTML function allows you to see exactly how the HTML source code has changed over time for a particular URL. The function highlights any different HTML code and it is conveniently displayed side-by-side. Furthermore using the “Browse” function you can recall any previously saves images, HTML source code and saved web pages (MHT files).
  
  
• HTML Validation and Auto-Correction
  The validation and auto-correct function conveniently highlight any potential HTML problems, which could be causing cross browser rendering issues.
  
  
• Browser and Application Auto-Update Feature
  Multi-Browser Viewer automatically prompts you for any browser or application updates, which are conveniently downloaded from within the application itself. Similarly, if you don’t have a standalone browser locally on your machine yet, it is automatically downloaded for you when you need it.
  
  
• Other user friendly functions
  Multi-Browser Viewer has many other convenient functions making your browser compatibility testing as productive as possible. Some of these include:
• Right Click, Copy function - copies the entire high resolution image to your clipboard for use in your image editing applications like Adobe Photoshop.
• Re-Request any individual image, without having to re-request the entire group of screenshot images.
• Customize your application with 6 different themes.
• Minimize and silently run the application in the background, when a particular job has finished a small notification will pop up in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.