Google has released their own take of a browser : Chrome a couple days ago. In addition to the much hyped multi process tabs, the simple straight forward design, i think the incognito mode is quite interesting. That mysterious looking spy in thrench coat image on the top left of the browser window does makes your private browsing ‘experience’ feel more secure… But just make sure that there’s nobody standing  behind.

So great, now i have another brand new browser to test against. The first thing i did was to load up all of our sites and web app into the browser for a test run. Everything worked as expected. There’s a slight design issue with our main site when viewed in Chrome but this was also expected since the problem is caused by hacks that I use to make the layout IE  compatible (IE still sucks).  If your coding is standard compliant, then you don’t have to worry.

I dont know how many browsers does other developers/designers  usually test against but for now i’m fine w/ Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera.

You can get the IE standalone browsers over here : http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

If you’re very ambitious to test your stuff against more browsers, Evolt has a good collections  of browsers for download : http://browsers.evolt.org/

If you’re not too fond of downloading gazillions of browsers  into your PC, and you’re only testing the layout, you can get a screenshot  of your sites in multiple browsers (more than 46!) here : http://browsershots.org

Else, just test in Firefox. If it’s OK in Firefox, it should be OK in almost all major browsers (but probably not in IE)

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