Trey Connell

February 4, 2009 | In: Development

Free Screen Captures in any Browser

Browser Shots

Web developers and designers all know what a PITA it is to test their work across multiple browsers. At the very least, you’re typically dealing with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (and soon IE 8 is coming out), Firefox 2 and 3 (on both Mac and PC), and Safari (Mac and PC). Some even look at browsers like Opera and Konqueror. Now, Google Chrome is on the rise and may be yet another browser we have to take into consideration.

I found a site that is tremendously helpful for testing across all browsers – browsershots.org. You can choose all the browsers you want to capture a screen grab for and enable things like javascript and flash. After making your selections and submitting a URL, you have to wait anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes for your jobs to process and the screenshots to appear.

What makes this site really great is the fact that it’s FREE. BrowserShots isn’t going to let you do full cross-browser compatibility QA for a site, but it’s great for checking your design and layout and making sure it’s not completely borked in something like IE 6.

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