Chrome
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 updated on Cloud Agents
We have completed the upgrades of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 used by our Functional and Cross Browser testing service. We currently support: Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. Firefox 3.0, 3.6 and 3.6 Chrome – latest version Safari 3.2, 4.0 and 5.0 Opera 9.6
Google releases Chrome 6 beta.
In this latest release is a 15 per cent speed improvement on the V8 and SunSpider javascript benchmarks, as well as a few of the new features including Autofill, a streamlined upper toolbar, made the Omnibox more approachable, and condensed all of the options into a single menu.
97% of Chrome users running the latest version compared to 85% for Firefox and 53% for Safari
According to “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” (download PDF), 97% of Chrome users were running the latest version of the browser within 21 days of the last update’s release. By comparison, 85% of Firefox users were up-to-date in the same span, while only 53% Safari users could say the same. The Chrome browser is auto [...]
Thumbnails of screenshots added to Cloud Testing RSS feed
Cloud testing has improved it’s RSS results feed to add thumbnails of the pages tested, along with more detail of the result. Users can view the results in the RSS reader of their choice, shown below are the same feed in Thunderbird 3 (RC2), Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 4.0.4. Unfortunately Google Chrome does not [...]
New 'Onion Skin' tool
We’ve just launched a new’Onion Skin’ tool to allow you to compare two screenshots taken in different browsers with our cross browser testing service. Once you have performed a test, you can view the thumbnails of the browser screenshots – in this caseIE8, Firefox 3.5.3, Safari 4.0.3 and Chrome 3.0: Selecting the tick boxes next [...]
New Cross Browser compare thumbnails view
Cross Browser testing from Cloud Testing just got easier, with the new compare screenshot view. The full detailed view is still only a mouse click away, and further enhancements are currently in beta – watch this space for updates. Full details of Cloud Testing and how to perform Cross Browser tests of your user journeys [...]
Running Cross Browser tests with Selenium and Cloud Testing
Once you have uploaded your Selenium script into your Cloud Testing account, one of the many things you can do is run a Cross Browser test. This will allow you to compare screenshots, captured HTML and components of the various steps in your user journey in the browsers that we currently support: Internet Explorer ( [...]
Support for Firefox 3.5 added
Here at Cloud Testing, we have rolled out Firefox 3.5 Beta4 onto our Cloud Agents, so you can now run your scripts more browsers. We now support: Firefox 2 (2.0.0.20) Firefox 3 (3.0.10) Firefox 3.5 (3.5 RC2) [Updated 24th June] Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 You can choose to run your [...]
Chrome for Mac OS X
Google developers have now got its Chrome browser ‘working’ on Mac OS X, according to a post on its blogs. The posting, which says “Now we can call it Chrome!”, and has a link to a screen-shot, fails to correctly render the page, but it is a good step in the right direction. Google has [...]
