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Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

#6
Great idea and I look forward to using this.

There appears to be several issues to work out. I've not been able to get a page rendered. I get "Nexus is down. Try again shortly." "No API for group null" and "You are not signed in!" when I am signed in.

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

#8
I got to use it. It's basic for now but shows a lot of promise. A number of factors that you'd need to add for me to even consider using it:

- Bigger browser window

- More responsive UI. It shows a message saying a plugin was not run (flash) but it took forever to be able to click the X on the message to hide it and it locked up the browser (not my browser but the browser in the browser.)

- There was a lot of waiting in the queue and it suggested paid plan... but no paid plan available.

- I was able to access other parts of the machine, including the printing and devices section (usually visible when you right click the computer icon and click properties. You might want to lock down the machine a bit more.

I'm guessing you're aware of most of these.

The only other thing I'll say is that how are you dealing with the Windows licensing? You probably don't want to ignore dealing with that if you haven't yet as it could be painful in the future.

Overall, very interesting technology. Kudos!

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

#10
post #7

Does the queue update while you're sitting on the queue page? I was at #2 the whole time, and then it gave me a "time's up" message.

Everything crashed at one point so we had to restart everything. Everyone lost their queue. :(
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