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Alex Parra
Alex Parra

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What’s your preferred way to test Internet Explorer and Edge from Linux or Mac?

I’m setting up Parallels with Microsoft’s free developer images.

Do you have a better way?

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Vincent Grovestine

Virtual Box + Windows 10 Pro VM.

I'm also the lone Linux user in a pro-Microsoft workplace, so my Windows virtual machine also gets used for desktop Office 365 apps and Sharepoint in cases where LibreOffice and the non-MS browser experience, respectively, are insufficient.

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Alex Parra • Edited

Parallels setup working although it was tricky to get to load the localhost app served by webpack.

It’s a pain to debug html and css in IE11.
But it was way worse in IE 9 and below.

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mt3o

Yeah, and even worse with ie8 and with ie6 it was real nightmare.

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Jen Chan

I have spent Friday looking for a free option to do this! Even after installing virtualbox and running a Windows vmdk on it I wasn't able to get local host for angular showing in there. Have yet to try parallel and bootcamp. Got paywalled on Amazon Workspaces. Ugh