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#1 User is offline   Starseed 

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Posted 05 July 2011 - 08:21 PM

I currently have the latest versions of IE, FF, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome but so far have had no success downloading and installing older versions of these browsers. I would really appreciate it if anyone with older versions could take a quick peek at my website and let me know if you have any problems.

Link here: http://www.starseed.eu/jan/

Also anyone using something other than a PC would be helpful too.

I don't expect a thorough test, just a quick glance to make sure you can actually view it!

Thanks in advance :)
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Posted 06 July 2011 - 12:25 PM

Have you heard of IETester? It runs old copies of IE on your PC allowing you to test. I think you can use old rendering engines in IE too but I don't know how you do that.

As for older versions of FF and Chrome, I wouldn't worry, when these browsers release a new version they pretty much force you to update so virtually nobody would be using an old copy, and I think you'd have to go a very, very long way back for anything to go wrong.
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Posted 06 July 2011 - 12:52 PM

IE8/IE9 press F12 then select browser mode, you have the back to IE7. Anything further back I wouldn't worry about.
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Posted 06 July 2011 - 01:08 PM

Thanks guys will try out that IETester main prob I had was installing old ies on my pc cos it's pretty up to date and wasn't compatible
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