I swear I put all my browser archive links into one blog post before, but a search tonight proved me wrong. So here they are… These are the sites I’ve used for years to download old browsers:
Last month the IE team mentioned that their latest Internet Explorer code (to be IE 8 sometime in the future) renders the “Acid2 Face” tests correctly. This is a large achievement for the team and developers around the world. Browser compatibility testing is going to get easier for us testers (once developers shake their old habits of coding workarounds for browser quirks)! Read the post here.
I’ve decided to dedicate a spot on the blog for the user-agent information I’ve been providing over the last few years. From now on you can reference this post from the right navigation under the tools section.
Here are four very good lists and classifications of user-agents:
Here is my huge user-agent XML import file for use with the User Agent Switcher Firefox add-on: AgentStrings20080223.xml (19.67 KB). Read here how you can use this tool for testing. The current file contains the following user-agents for your browser spoofing pleasure:
After a near 14 year life span competing with IE and other better browsers, AOL is throwing in the towel on Netscape Navigator. The war was long and drawn out but has finally come to an end for the poor browser.
Sweet! Take another browser off the browser compatibility testing list.
I found two more lists of user-agents for browsers, spiders, bots, RSS readers, devices, etc. If you’re looking to track down who/what a specific user-agent is or are looking to spoof a user-agent using the User Agent Switcher extension then these four lists should be helpful (newly discovered are on the top):
Update 05/17/2007: The list has been updated and can be found here.
Somebody asked for an update to my outdated XML import file for User Agent Switcher. Honoring that request, I have added the latest user agent strings for each browser. Updated or added strings are marked with green below. I also added a new section for RSS reader user agent strings. Download the User Agent List import file here: AgentStrings20070304.xml (16.51 KB).
Internet Explorer MSIE 7 (Win Vista) MSIE 7 (Win XP) MSIE 7 (Win Storage Server) MSIE 6 (Win XP) MSIE 5.5 (Win 2000) MSIE 5.5 (Win ME) MSIE 5.0 (Win 95) MSIE 4.01 (Win 95) MSIE 4.0 (Win NT) FireFox FireFox 2.0 (Win XP) FireFox 1.5.0.6 (Fedora Core 5/Linux) FireFox 1.5.0.4 (Debian Linux) FireFox 1.5.0.3 (Mac OSX) FireFox 1.5.0.1 (Win Vista) FireFox 1.5 (Win XP) FireFox 1.4 (Win XP) FireFox 1.0.7 (Win XP) FireFox 1.0.6 (Win XP) FireFox 1.0.5 (SlackWare/Linux) FireFox 1.0.4 (FreeBSD) FireFox 1.0 (Win XP) FireFox 0.9.3 (Win XP) Opera Opera 9.1 (Win XP) Opera 8.0 (Win 2000) Opera 7.6 (Server 2003) Opera 7.51 (Win XP) Opera 7.5 (Win XP) Opera 7.5 (Win ME) Opera 4 Opera 3 Opera 2 Opera 1
User Agent Strings. Tons of ’em. Browser, bots, RSS readers. The list is ever growing and never ending. Did you know that “a new user agent string is born every 65 seconds“? *
Here are two extensive lists of user agent strings:
Blink, process it again, Microsoft FireFox 2007 Professional Edition, blink real slow this time, look again, Microsoft FireFox 2007 Professional Edition. HUH?
Check it out yourself, somebody put a great deal of work into this. Don’t scan through, read the words. Too funny.
Another post yet again inspired by a Google search that lead to my site but I don’t necessarily address directly: “What is the quickest way to refresh a Web Page?”
Answer: The F5 key
How to refresh a Web page without pulling it from the browser’s cache? CTRL + F5
No such thing as a stupid question here at QAInsight.net\QABlog.net\QABlog.com! We all have to start somewhere eh?
The IE team has released Beta 3 of the IE Developer toolbar. I played with it for a while and found that it’s getting better. In prior versions I (and others I talked to) couldn’t get the Outlining functionality to work. It appears to work now in Beta 3, but it’s still a bit buggy. On a page off of Google news the toolbar was incapable of outlining all the images on the page. On a positive note, the new feature “Select Element by Click” is pretty dang slick and I could see it being really helpful in developer troubleshooting or testing investigation. The feature allows you to click any element in the Web page and that element’s details and position in the DOM will be displayed in Developer Toolbar’s DOM explorer. From there you can also view the source for that element too (with colored syntax).
If you haven’t already, start warming up with the beta 3. Once complete, this tool will be a must have in your developer and testing tool toolbox.
Get update information and screenshots of changes at the IE Blog. Download IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3 here.