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December 14, 2009

TOTW: Spoon.net/browsers

This weeks Tool of the Week is spoon.net‘s browser sandbox tool.

What it does:

Allows you to run sand-boxed versions of each of the major (and minor) browsers from within Firefox.

When you need it:

  • Cross browser testing
  • Running multiple versions of the same browser at once

How to use it:

Screencast hosted on screencast.com



About the Author

Christopher McCulloh
E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience




 
 

 
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2 Comments


  1. I can’t believe this isn’t all over the blogs. It’s getting so little publicity for how sweet it is for devs.


  2. Thank you! That was really informational, I just saved your site



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