Cross browser compatibility – which browsers should you install?

To test your code, you will need all the modern web browsers. In your list, you should have the following browsers:

  • Google Chrome (newest version)
  • Mozilla Firefox (newest version)
  • Mozilla Firefox developers edition (newest version)
  • Opera (newest version)
  • Safari (newest version)
  • Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (IE) is the biggest issue in frontend developers' lives because you will need a bunch of IEs on your machine, for example, 9, 10, and 11. The list is getting smaller because back in the days the list was longer. IE6, 7, 8, 9, and so on. Now IE6, 7, and 8 are mostly not supported by the biggest web projects like YouTube and Facebook. But it sometimes occurs in big companies in which ...

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