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Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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post #2

Does anyone have experience with this? It would be interesting if this is finally a good solution that really works.

It's great for manual testing, just be aware that the performance of the machines they host the browsers on is REALLY bad, to the point that it may make it hard to do testing of HTML5 apps. For basic website testing it works pretty great.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#12
post #9

Looks interesting, but can't you already do this in Chrome using User Agent Overrides (under Developer Tools)?

No matter what user agent you use, Chrome won't show you how your page looks in a non-WebKit layout engine like Gecko, Trident, or Presto.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#13
post #2

Does anyone have experience with this? It would be interesting if this is finally a good solution that really works.

It's great for manual testing, just be aware that the performance of the machines they host the browsers on is REALLY bad, to the point that it may make it hard to do testing of HTML5 apps. For basic website testing it works pretty great.

The application is in some sense basically a wrapper around a VNC connection. It's likely that the performance issues you're seeing are due to VNC latency rather than the power of the virtual machines themselves or the hardware they run on (which is pretty beefy). But your point is well made: given this architecture you can't really watch video or do things that require high framerates.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#14
post #6

I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow. Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service…

Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper.

Someone prove me wrong.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#16
post #9

Looks interesting, but can't you already do this in Chrome using User Agent Overrides (under Developer Tools)?

Different browsers (well, their rendering engine) will render html differently. The reason ie6 got so much slack years ago was because it didn't render 'correctly' at all. Web developers need to test in different browsers (/different versions) to check everyone is seeing the same thing.

overriding the UA just shows if the server serves different html to different clients

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#17
post #6

I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow. Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service…

Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

"recommended" doesn't mean - must buy. i use the $12 a month and it gets me what i need.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#18
post #6

I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow. Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service…

Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

What you're seeing is actually pricing for our automated testing service. Sauce for Mac is either free (30 mins of testing/mo) or $12/mo (for unlimited minutes against all browsers). It also comes included with all the testing plans on that page.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#19
post #9

Looks interesting, but can't you already do this in Chrome using User Agent Overrides (under Developer Tools)?

Nope; just today I ran into a bug where a click was being handled differently in an iPhone than it was in Chrome.
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