Question for testing using various browsers

[TimCadieux]

Does anyone have recommendations for Testing in various browsers? We are looking for options that would allow us to test our web presence using multiple browsers and on multiple platforms, without having all the above attached to our network.

Does anyone have recommendations for an emulator, or perhaps plugins that would allow us to test in say Chrome, Firefox as well as iPad or other?

[ani-coder-hacker]

I could test the websites on Windows and Linux, and on browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and IE. Is that what you mean?

[TimCadieux]

Yes, but how do you do it? Our sites are not exposed publicly.

[ghost]

Chrome has a built-in emulator sorta, it not perfect, but it does the trick.

You can read about it here https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/device-mode

FYI:
Reason I say it not perfect is mobile browser we'll change how certain things functions (like inputs on a form). Unfortunately some of these things on mobile are not very standardize like desktop so every browser and phone os does it different.

[GormFrank]

If I may add to @thekodester 's answer (thanks by the way), you should always look at the latest stable release of WET-BOEW on GitHub since we include what browsers are supported: https://github.com/wet-boew/GCWeb/releases. If browsers are older than the ones listed, then they are not supported anymore.

[garrenmicro]

Thx for the response, however, none of the above answers the actual question i asked which is HOW do people test...we're looking for a tool that we might purchase or install to allow us to emulate the various supported browsers, even if our network won;t allow us to install said browsers. Using Chrome's emulator is weak at best.

It looks like no one is actually doing this I guess.

[soatley]

When I test cross site/platform, I just use the browser and the platform. We don't have a large team of programmers so it's not something that there is a massive group of people testing. In some cases, we'll use a subdomain to test and in other cases, we can change the hosts file on the specific machine. The subdomain works pretty good for mobile devices. Worst case, you could set up a DNS server for those specific devices and have them point your domain to the test/dev server and the only devices that use that DNS server are the ones that are testing.