This site, as the name suggests provides you with screenshots of your website (or any other website for that matter) in different browsers and operating systems.

What is this?

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl.
When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue.
A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser.
Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

This is primarily to ensure if your website design is compatible with the major browsers and also displays correctly in each of them. There are also options to set several parameters for the browsers as well, such as Javascript enabled/disabled, Flash enabled/disabled and Java enabled/disabled.

You can also set the parameters for the viewing device ( a monitor, in this case) such as screen resolution and color depth.

All you have to do is to simply enter the address to the web page of which you want screenshots of and Browsershots does the rest. Of course this did turn out to be a rather tedious operation as the form field declined to accept the web page address without the preceding “http” or “https” and the trailing slash “/”. I guess you ought to follow protocol here.

Once that is done, all you have to do is to configure the parameters. There are three OSes to choose from. Windows, Mac and Linux.

Dillo 0.8, Epiphany 2.16, Firefox 1.5, Galeon 2.0, Iceweasel 2.0, Konqueror 3.5, Mozilla 1.7, Opera, 9.2, Opera 9.10 are the browsers available for Linux. Firefox 1.5. Firefox 2.0, MSIE 5.0, MSIE 5.5, MSIE 6.0, MSIE 7.0 are the browsers for Windows. Only Firefox 2 and Safari 2 are available for Macintosh.

After setting the other optional parameters as specified above, you can set the maximum wait time after which your incomplete requests will expire. The requests are not handled immediately, but the process is dependant on the server load and request backlog. Usually your request will be done in a hour, often less.

You can visit the URI they provide to verify the status of your request. You can also check out the recent screenshots made by Browsershots. Since it is open source, the source code is also available. Do you think this would be useful for you? Give me your opinions on this service.. Thanks for reading!

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