I have been hired to work with multiple clients as once using IE on Windows 7. I just want to ask if there is any way to run multiple IE's at once packed with several tabs each individually divided across them.
I would like to run each IE as separated unit for each client i am working with. One IE instance could have client A stuff and second client B etc.
I really would like to click instances on task bar to load each browser config to match current client.
EDIT: Just to clarify i am doing customer service which gives me different tools for different services. I would like to organize them in different IE windows.
One way to do it would be using virtual machines for each IE instance - that way you get as "real" of an IE as possible.
Microsoft has VMs available with versions of IE 8+ and Windows 7+:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/
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I am automating the setup screen of one product which was developed in .Net. When I was spying the setup dialog in one machine it was identified as SWFObject and another machine it was identified as WinObject. Not sure how to overcome this problem.
Make sure that you've activated the .NET add-on in the add-on manager (on the second machine) and that the application is included in the Record and Run Settings.
I need to write an application that can detect if the "Bing - Get me there" application is installed on the current phone and if so, launch it.
Is this possible? The app would need to do this for other external applications as well, so a generic method or interface for this would be helpful.
Applications run in a sandbox on Windows Phone and there is no way to tell if other applications are installed unless you are writing both of them and you use a method to announce to other applications that you are installed and they know how to read that announcement.
2 approaches to such announcements would be:
Have both (all) apps synchronise with a web server and report which devices they have been installed on. The apps can the query which other apps have been installed on that device.
Have all apps write a file to a location where all apps can access. The only place to do this is the PicturesLibrary so you have to embed the identifier in the name of the image or in its contents and be able to query all images to identify the other installed apps. The user could manually delete any images you create in this way though.
Beware, neither method can tell if the other app has subsequently been uninstalled though so this is far from foolproof.
As far as I know, there's no way to do that.
Applications on Windows Phone run in complete isolation, and can not act with other applications, other than some highly specialized apps (i.e. for playing media).
I have noticed that some browsers via a build in development feature allow you to choose different user agents.
Does this mean that they change their rendering engine?
Say for example, if I set Safari's user agent to internet explorer - will that then change the rending engine from webkit to trident?
At the moment on my mac I have Safari, Chrome, Firefox and iCab installed. I would imagine they would represent the different engine's better than the user agent function built in.
However you are only limited to installing 1 version of each unless you go the virtual machine or dual boot way.
So what is your advice? Run multiple virtual machine and of course the extra licenses to do it legal will need to be purchased. or stick with the user agent function built in and that gives a good enough interperatation of the differences??
Cheers Jeff
Say for example, if I set Safari's user agent to internet explorer - will that then change the rending engine from webkit to trident?
No. A user agent is just a string that the browser sends to identify itself. I could set my user agent to cheeseburger if I wanted. It won't use a cheeseburger to try and render the page.
Officially, the only correct way to run Internet Explorer is on Windows - which would require a Windows installation - a VM is a perfect valid and common solution. On a Mac you also have the option of Bootcamp.
There are other services, like http://browsershots.org/, that allow you to specify a URL and they will send you a screenshot of what the URL likes like in a particular browser. I typically don't like these solutions because they are slow, you don't have any debugging tools, etc.
the user agent setting in safari (and other browsers) only spoofs the user agent, it doesn't change the rendering engine. you can use that spoofing, to get for example the iPhone version of a webpage in your desktop safari. to check your page in different browsers, you could use some web service like http://browsershots.org/ (thats just the first google result) or setup an array of virtual machines. we do the latter, which ineed costs you 2-3 windows licenses, but you can pack a lot of browsers into one virtual machine, just distribute the different versions among different machines
We're building a plug-in for Outlook that should work on multiple Windows versions (XP, Vista, 7) and also with different Outlook versions (2003, 2007, 2010).
The testing problem I am facing right now, is that I can't figure out a good/convenient/thorough way to test the application on multiple Windows and Outlook versions.
At the moment, I have a VirtualBox which runs many virtual machines, with different Windows versions and Outlook versions. So I would have a virtual machine with Windows 7 testing Outlook 2010, and another one with Windows 7 testing Outlook 2007, Windows Vista with Outlook 2010 and so on, going through some of the possible combinations. It kind of gets the job done, although it is cumbersome and takes a long time to test.
Some of the testing included in the application is unit testing, but this is also rather tied in with the machine I test it on (windows 7 with outlook 2010). For example, I was using ManagementObject recently, which worked fine on my system (and thus passed the unit test for that method), however, using that object threw an exception in another person's system, which crashed the application.
I work on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
The questions: Is there a more elegant way to make the testing process more streamline and more efficient? Any other testing methods you recommend? How would you deal with this problem?
Thanks! Looking forward to your replies.
I've worked on similar situations (in my case is to test 20 different languages of Windows). The basic idea is the same: each virtual machine maps to a specific condition that you need to test.
The cumbersome part comes from inappropriate tool usage. AFAIK, there are several ways to achieve automation (to a certain degree):
Use VMWare ESX which supports nice scripting. It costs a little fortune unfortunately.
Use some screen record/replay tools to automate what you are doing by hand right now. There are quite a few on the market and the price difference is huge. Only you can tell what fits you best.
VirtualBox can be reverted via command-line. Therefore, if you can setup a bunch of machines hosting VBox, each configured to revert VBox during reboot, and each guest image is scripted to load your test, then the problem is to reboot these machines as you wish. This is an easier problem since there are quite a few ways to reboot machine remotely.
I'm having a performance problem on my company's web site using a specific version of IE 8 to load a page using https. Here's what I know.
Server:
Virtual machine running on VMWare ESX
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP 2
Tomcat 6.0.16
Client:
Windows XP and Window 7
Internet Explorer 8.0.7600.16385IC
Page loads/refreshes in under 1 second using HTTP.
Page loads/refreshes in 15-16 seconds in HTTPS using this version of IE.
Problem reproduced on multiple client machines with same IE version.
Problem reproduced on multiple client machines with different Windows versions (XP and 7).
No performance problem using Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Safari from same machine.
No performance problem using other versions of IE 8 on other machines.
Slow load causes virtually no CPU, memory, or I/O spike on server or client machine.
No performance problem on other sites using HTTPS on same client machine.
The pages in question use JavaScript and innerHTML to replace the contents of div elements to create a collapsible menu, and an iframe to display some content. A couple of the div elements contain images. If I remove the iframe and the JavaScript, the performance issues go away. However, rewriting the entire site to make these changes would be very time consuming. We're in the process of replacing the whole site, but it may be 2-3 months before we do so and we really cannot live with this slowdown that long. I've already looked at several IE tuning options, such as disabling add ons, running IE-rereg, and resetting IE, with no luck.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
The version you mention is the version that shows in Windows 7, is it not (i.e., in Windows XP, it should show like 8.0.6001.18904)? Have you applied all recent patches? More particularly, have you applied the KB980182 security patch?
That particular patch was an "out of band" patch, which means it has been brought to the public in haste and outside of the normal upgrade cycle. It came out April 22, 2010, or about. If you have installed the patch (either automatically, or by hand), try uninstalling or rollback using the Backup and Restore Center and select the restore point that mentions that fix.
While KB980182 caused quite some trouble and weird behaviors, you may try the same approach with other patches if rolling back to before KB980182 didn't help: rollback using Backup and Restore Center to an earlier moment in time, and check if the problem goes away.
This type of testing is a nuisance, I know, but I'm afraid there's little else you can do.