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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by sho on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:04AM (#18596761)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but if testing on your browser means downloading a 4GB+ image every couple months and having it take up all my memory in a clunky VM and messing around with how it gets its IP and then trying to update itself with another multi-gigabyte windows update while I'm tethering and did I mention you have to redo it all every couple of months?... then I'm not testing against your browser.
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by millstone on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:57AM (#18597274)
Then how are you testing your browser? Are you assuming that testing Chrome on ThisOS is sufficient testing for Chrome on EveryOtherOS?
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by UweSchmidt on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:27AM (#18597816)
One thing is testing if the fancy custom react component works properly in a particular browser at all, that should be the case in a certain browser+version across OSes and you'd want that available all the time.

The other thing is testing if some CSS is acting up in a specific Browser/Browserversion/OS/Screensize/Phone combination; that is probably a job for QA.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:55AM (#18597628)
There's a startup for that: https://www.browserling.com/ run by user pkrumins

https://www.browserling.com/browse/win/7/ie/11/https%3A%2F%2...

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by UweSchmidt on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:30AM (#18597833)
There is also http://saucelabs.com/ and https://www.browserstack.com/ who have real devices and allow you to run automated tests.
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by alexmcpeak on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:44PM (#18683939)
As well as https://crossbrowsertesting.com
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:10AM (#18598660)
> and messing around with how it gets its IP

Standard VirtualBox is either bridged or NAT, never had a problem there.

> and then trying to update itself with another multi-gigabyte windows update

Now THAT one is a real problem. MS to this day didn't bother to release a Service Pack 2 for W7.

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