Ever since Adobe BrowserLab came out in June 2009 I've been using it fairly regularly to test my Web designs. I like that it's integrated directly into Dreamweaver (with an extension) or that I can use it standalone when I'm working in a different editor. But I hated that in order to show how the pages looked to clients and colleagues I had to take a screen shot myself. While this isn't hard, it was annoying. Today, Adobe released a new version of BrowserLab that lets you save your screenshots to your local hard drive. You just right click (option-click) on the image and select "Save Locally". And it's saved to your hard drive. Now, if it would add in a few more older browsers and some mobile devices (or even just the iPhone) it would be the perfect tool for testing.
Good tool. I’m with you, I would love to be able to see shots from mobile devices, this is starting to become a high priority for design now.
Browserlab is nice and free, which is really nice. Plus it is cool that it is integrated with dreamweaver for a quick test, but I still prefer Multi Browser Viewer for actual rendering testing. It gives me more screenshot options, which are all saved locally automatically, plus it gives me the actual browsers, so I can test functionality.
I love browserlab, but as James says, it’s a shame there’s no page functionality, so you can’t test mouseovers other visual effects.
I use browserlapbs for cross platform screenshots and the free IETester for checking functionality in earloer versions of IE.
I also use virtualbox with my old XP licence and a version of linux for more intense testing. Unfortunately I haven’t found a ay to run os-x on virtualbox yet…
A good improve to BrowserLab, however, the browser list is little small… A much more larger list can be at browsershots.org, and it’s free like BrowserLab. Still, BrowserLab is faster than BrowserShots and also more stable.
Check out Browsera, our new automated cross-browser testing service. It’s better than screenshots because it actually detects layout problems and functional bugs.
Well, since all our competitors commented on this already, we feel obliged to mention that BrowserSeal had this functionality, along with many other features not supported by BrowserLab, for ages.
Great tool for development purposes especially when its free from Adobe a couple of small quirks in it but nothing to go overboard about. Great blog by the way
Excellent tool i would like to have the screenshots into my local drive i am quite exited to think about that, very nice information you shared please keep it up,thank you very much.