Given the people who read this blog, as well as write for it, I doubt I am a minority when I say I have, and use, multiple web browsers on my computers. At any given time you can find Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome on my PC’s. I haven’t yet succumbed to adding Safari or Opera, or any of the lesser-known flavors, but I am a regular on the big three.
Web developers are a whole different story. They need to check and verify everything they do in every browser that has any type of user-base. Not to mentions other applications like Flash. There is an easier way than installing and updating all of these, though.
Today Adobe announced the latest version of BrowserLab – 1.6.4. BrowserLab allows you to test web sites and web apps within the application against all of the major browsers, plus Flash. The latest version of BrowserLab adds support for the following applications.
- Chrome 14 was added (Windows), and Chrome 11 was removed
- Firefox 7 was added (Mac OS X and Windows), and Firefox 4 was removed
- Safari was updated to 5.1 (Mac OS X)
- Flash Player was updated to 10.3.183.10 (Mac OS X and Windows)
They keep it up-to-date, but it’s generally a bit behind browser releases. Plus, they are promising Flash 11 (already available) in the next version. Still, it’s much easier than trying to manage all of this yourself. If you develop apps and don’t know about this yet, then you will want to head over to Adobe BrowserLab to check it out.
