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Re:Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce ... by samuel02 on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:08PM (#4884095)
Does anyone have experience with this? It would be interesting if this is finally a good solution that really works.
Re:Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce ... by jlipps on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:16PM (#4884132)
I was part of the team that built this and I can say from extensive use that it does work. It doesn't do everything that I'd love for it to do (for example, we're still working on supporting higher screen resolutions), but it's a really solid start. Please do check it out, and let us know what would make it more awesome!
Re:Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce ... by kevingadd on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:30PM (#4884210)
It's great for manual testing, just be aware that the performance of the machines they host the browsers on is REALLY bad, to the point that it may make it hard to do testing of HTML5 apps. For basic website testing it works pretty great.
Re:Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce ... by jlipps on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:35PM (#4884252)
The application is in some sense basically a wrapper around a VNC connection. It's likely that the performance issues you're seeing are due to VNC latency rather than the power of the virtual machines themselves or the hardware they run on (which is pretty beefy). But your point is well made: given this architecture you can't really watch video or do things that require high framerates.
Re:Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce ... by meltzerj on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:10PM (#4884106)
yeah would like to know this as well. If this works and is accurate, it could be huge for IE testing.