Comments on: Cross Browser Testing on Linux

By: Gibbs

Gibbs — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:16:29 +0000

Hi Somchart. I don’t think you can do much to improve the performance. It also eats a lot of memory in the process. IEs 4 Linux uses Wine so it isn’t a native application.

As pointed out by David a lot of “features” such as filters don’t work either. However, with that being said, it should still be a good enough method purely for testing layout quirks.

By: somchart

somchart — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:09:19 +0000

Now my company use UBUNTU, it make I tried start to learn about cross browser with ubuntu.

I installed IEs 4 Linux on my OS, but IE is very slowly, how can I config it for better.

Thank

By: Gibbs

Gibbs — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:31:03 +0000

I noticed that about IE too. It’s good in terms of other quirks such as positioning but a lot of the filters don’t work like the alpha filter you mentioned.

Using VMWare does kind of defeat the point as some people may not have Windows. In that case I would suggest using Browsershots, not a brilliant solution but one nonetheless. Thanks for the feedback.

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:40:10 +0000

Hi,

I am also a Linux user. I didn’t know that you could test Chrome or Safari in Linux. Will have to get those setup.

In the case of IEs for Linux, I find those to be very poor. They don’t have features like the alpha image loader. So I do IE debuging in VMWare.