For front-end developers and quality assurance testers on Mac or Linux computers, those browsers are often tested when development is nearly finished, using a paid web app such as BrowserStack or CrossBrowserTesting aimed at visual QA more than debugging or high-fidelity UX testing.Ī Windows 10 "virtual machine" (VM) -in lay terms, think a full additional computer in an app on your computer- puts full true Microsoft browser testing at your fingertips. Internet Explorer and Edge only run on Microsoft operating systems. (Each site's audience is different, and the decision to spend time and money to make grumpy IE11 match a comp should be made with that site's traffic in mind.) But that means as many as 1 in 20 United States users could be using either IE or Edge, and that means it's well worth considering testing your site in Microsoft browsers. Not much perhaps compared to the leader Chrome (61.77% in the U.S., 49.13% worldwide) or even the runner up Safari (15.09% in the U.S., 32.38% worldwide). The first in the series is Set Up Simulator and Test iOS Mobile Safari on Mac.Īccording to one well known source of desktop browser marketshare data, in November 2018 Internet Explorer usage was at 2.8% in the United States and 5.05% worldwide Edge usage was at 2.15% in the United States and 4.25% worldwide.
In addition, the Edge team is working on supporting Vagrant and QEMU with future virtual machine images.This article is part of a series on running cross-browser tests directly on your primary computer. Users will be able to start up a new session right after their old one ends, but their work won’t be saved between sessions. In addition, the Edge team is working on supporting Vagrant and QEMU with future virtual machine images. Once it’s set up, developers will be able to use Edge through RemoteApp for free for up to 60 minutes at a time before the system kicks them off. Moving forward, Microsoft Edge Program Manager Anton Molleda said that the company is working on making the browser available through Azure RemoteApp so developers can use the browser through a virtual machine hosted in the company's cloud. Those VMs are still available for download from the Microsoft Edge Dev website as well, for developers who need to test their work against older versions of Microsoft's browser. It's a continuation of Microsoft's previous Modern.IE program, which served up virtual machines running everything from Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8. Microsoft recommends creating a snapshot of an Edge virtual machine that users can then restore from later to help manage that limitation. The virtual machines stop working after 90 days, and users will lose all of their data. This isn't a path to free Windows 10 for everyone, though.
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