Free online tool: test your blog in different browsers

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Posted in » Online Tools, Screenshot Takers - by Ades on April 5th, 2008

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Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your blog/site in different browsers. It’s a great tool to check if your blog shows up correctly on different browsers. It’s a bless for web designers who otherwise have to pay for paid services to check their designs on different browsers.

It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server where you can view them.

It tests on three different Operating Systems (linux, windows and mac os) and on different browsers on these three os’s.

You can also choose preferences on screenshot size, color depth, javascript, java and flash (for the last three you can enable them or disable them or leave it as it is). check it out browsershots.org

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20 Responses to “Free online tool: test your blog in different browsers”

  1. By Webmaster on Apr 5, 2008

    I’ve already used it to test my web design

  2. By shawal on Apr 5, 2008

    usefull tool’s.. sure going to try it…

  3. By Dining Tables on Apr 5, 2008

    Thank you for a very informative post.

  4. By Elections photos on Apr 6, 2008

    I don’t think I really need this because I use standard template on Blogger.

  5. By Fitness Site on Apr 6, 2008

    wow thats a nice tool.
    I used to download each version.
    Thanks man. :)

  6. By PS3 on Apr 6, 2008

    Well worth a look, I only wish I had it when I first designed a couple of sites.

    I was using IE7 at the time and everything looked fine. It was a month later that someone pointed out the he headers looked missized in Firefox.

    Thanks for the heads up.

  7. By seo blog on Apr 6, 2008

    This tool only works every other go for me. Half the time screenshots are simply not there. Shame i have no other options.

  8. By Futon-Matt on Apr 6, 2008

    Very cool, I am definitely going to check this out.

  9. By James Mann on Apr 7, 2008

    Excellent Ades

    When I make changes to my blogs through the css file I end up with a page that may work fine in my default browser FireFox, but I don’t always think of checking it in Internet Explorer.

    I have had some long nights trying to figure out where I messed up.

    I don’t use any other browsers so it would be great to see what anyone of my sites looks like without installing them.

    That is certainly a worthwhile place to bookmark.

  10. By Rice Blogger on Apr 7, 2008

    it is great tool..but i am not really good at css design…

  11. By SEOrious Results on Apr 7, 2008

    Nice tool….one tends to work in one’s own favourite browser, and quite often glitches slip through that are glaringly obvious in other browsers. Thanks for sharing this free utility!

  12. By Sergio on Apr 7, 2008

    a great tool Ades! great find, cheers!!

  13. By Forumistan on Apr 8, 2008

    Very nice tool, thank you…

  14. By Dave on Apr 8, 2008

    Great tool mentioned here. There’s nothing worse than designing a new CSS layout and then going to your friend’s house who is using some alternate browser like safari and seeing your layout all messed up.

    I’m 100% anti-Apple products but do so much site design work I actually bought an Mac laptop on eBay to test the mac browsers. I could have saved that $700 !!!

  15. By SEOrious Results on Apr 9, 2008

    We had a customer ask about Safari compatibilty with the sites that we design the other day. It was the 1st time in almost ten years that anybody asked that question!

    Sorry to hear you went and spent all that money to check mac browsers, Dave…look on the bright side though, you can use this utility and put that notebook right back onto ebay!

  16. By Recliner on Apr 10, 2008

    You mean the same web page can display differently on different web browsers? I had no idea that happened. But then i have no idea about a lot of things :)

  17. By Website Design on Apr 10, 2008

    Yup, making your website display the same in the major browsers (IE6, IE7, FF) are one of the challenges of web design.

  18. By Scott Sweeney on Apr 12, 2008

    I was on the authority blogger forum when I first heard about browsershots.

    I am glad I did, because at work, where I do a lot of my editing, I made a change to my theme which looked fine on IE 6, but was a hot mess in Firefox.

    Now after making any changes anywhere, I use this website. It is great.

    Cheers
    scott

  19. By chinedu on Apr 12, 2008

    this is some pretty good information

  20. By Television on Apr 15, 2008

    This online tool will be very useful for webmasters because we all know that different browsers interpret the webpage source code in different ways and by that the same webpage is displayed different in different browsers. Thank you Ades for sharing this great online tool with us.

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