I'm from Poland, but I'm using English version of both Windows all my browsers. I have also set English as my default or the only language in all these browsers.
Both Windows Dev Center and Windows Phone Dev Center appears in English in all of these browsers... except for Internet Explorer, where first (Windows Dev Center) is in Polish.
Anyone knows, what is used to determine user language? And if there is any way to change this?
If you use default link to access Windows Dev Center dashboard:
https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/
You will be most likely redirected to your language version, for example (in my case -- Polish):
https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/pl-pl/Home/Index
You can simply change this to English dashboard:
https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/en-us/Home/Index
and start using above link, instead of "default" to access Windows Dev Center dashboard each time. Simply update all your bookmarks and links to this one and enjoy dashboard in English.
What causes English Internet Explorer on English Windows to detect Polish language in my case and redirect me to Polish version of Windows Dev Center, and why this "trick" works only in case of Windows Dev Center, but not in case of Windows Phone Dev Center -- remains mystery for me.
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I'm experiencing black screen in google chrome (and a lot more...read below) after waking windows 10 up from sleep mode.
This issue appears in google chrome and all derived applications, in few words I'm experiencing this in:
Google chrome Version 80.0.3987.149 (pretty sure i was having this issue also before)
The new Microsoft Edge browser based on chromium
All the pwa (progressive web apps) installed with chrome or edge
All electron applications like:
Visual Studio Code
Whatsapp
All the Electron applications made by me.
I had this issue for a long time but the spreading of chrome based services is going to make this thing a lot annoying...
I'm using Windows 10 1909 home 64 bit (pretty sure I was having this issue also in windows 10 1903)
WORKAROUND: if in google chrome (or edge chromium) i keep a tab that in the closing prompts a javascript alert, in the moment when the alert is prompted, the issue is gone, the black screen is gone and i can return to see the whole tabs.
So after waking up windows 10 from sleep mode, if i see black screen in the browser i can just close it with the cross in the top right corner, in that moment the alert is prompted "are you sure to leave this page?", i answer "no i want to stay in this page" and the issue is gone.
Of course this is a workaround cause you can forget to keep that site in the tabs of chrome/edge, and this doesn't resolve the issue in visual studio code.
Starting google-chrome with the --use-gl=desktop seems to work with no side effects.
I had same issue with Fedora, Chrome and NVIDA drivers. At first I tried enbling the vulkan flag.
Go to chrome://flags and enable ignore-gpu-blacklist and enable-vulkan. However, Chrome performance suffers and others have pointed out with this settings.
Found the vulkan tip in a comment here. The use-gl-desktop tip here
I have a ready template that is supposed to support the major browsers and IE versions 9, 10 and 11. The web page looks good on Chrome, Firefox and in my IE 10.
Using the F12 (developer tools) I have tested it using Browser Mode set at IE9, 8 and 7.
In the I have added <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=Edge"/> so the "Document Mode" is set to Standards by default. I have choosed Edge because it fixed some issues on 7 and 8, that were not fixed using the content="IE=1E9".
So everything looks nice in my pc, supposing that the "Browser Mode" is actual how it looks on an installed IE9, 8, 7.
When I use some online tools like http://netrenderer.com/ and set my choice to IE8 it shows a messy site, not like the one I see.
Who is the correct? Am I missing something?
Don't test using browser modes, use the actual browser - you can download free virtual machines from modern.ie.
Settings the IE=Edge doesn't guarantee proper browser mode. Check in the VMs or using browserstack to make sure the browser modes are being set correctly in the F12 tools
In my experience I have been mislead on more than one occasion using the IE developer tools when assuring my sites look good on IE variants. If you are familiar with VMs then I would suggest installing a Windows guest machine and install the appropriate browser versions.
If you want to test on your local machine for IE issues I use BrowserStack and I can configure it to run on my local machine so I can see my changes as I go along rather than making changes on local, publishing them, and then going into my VM and seeing if things look good.
I'm implementing a web application that uses html5 features.
Is still on localhost. Is there any online service that I can test my localhost site somehow?
I mean, is there an online service that simulates mobile browsers, or versions of older web browsers?
So I don't have to download/install older browsers?
You can use a browser named Lunascape, because its giving you facility to run your site (local and live both) on different 3 rendering engine in same single browser.
And we know that almost all browser uses one of these three rendering engine.
Trident = for IE,Internet Explorer Mobile version and others
Gecko = Firefox, Firefox for mobile and many others
Webkit = Safari, chrome... know more
so you can just switch to any one of these three rendering engine by click on icon at right side of address bar of lunascape browser.
Download and check it. May be it useful to you...Lunascape
Click here for More information about Lunascape
In other option, Avant browser is also good choise. but I like Lunascape more compare to avant, but that is my personal opinion may be you have different experience with one of these two.
Because Adobe Browser lab is shutdown you can also go with BrowserStack or Saucelab but these are paid.
I would use a firefox or chrome plugin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/test-ie/eldlkpeoddgbmpjlnpfblfpgodnojfjl):
here are a list of services and plugins:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/complete-guide-to-cross-browser-compatibility-check/
Install Test IE plugin to Firefox and then run your local site and click to Test IE icon on the right-top of Firefox and choose which version of IE you want.
Note:It has 30 minutes free trial time.
I had the same question today and a coworker told me about BrowserStack. Create a free online account and then install the chrome extension. Fairly easy setup -> Just make sure to click Yes when they ask if you want to do local testing, and it'll guide you through getting started.
The testing options are extremely detailed: I'm using it to check between a Chrome on Mac vs Chrome on Windows styling bug, and it's working perfectly for testing my localhost dev version.
I am having a problem with my browsers (Safari, Chrome, and FF) displaying text in italics when it's not supposed to be italicized. This is happening on multiple sites including Google sites (Google, YouTube) as well as sites I have built and others (godaddy email, ford.com, even stackoverflow). Surprisingly though, it is not happening with my time tracker site (freeagent.com).
I have no idea what's going on. I have not installed any new software recently nor any new fonts. I am running Mac OS X lion.
I had the same problem where all the email titles were bold in my GoDaddy Email, on several browsers and only at one computer. It all happened after installing Suitcase Fusion and copying over a font library to that specific computer. I followed Lisa's suggestion and permanently turned on another version of Arial (TrueType, version 3.05) and it did the trick: all the email titles are back to normal (bold if unread, regular if read).
I've been having this problem... text bold and italic in all browsers, websites, twitter, even emails... what I did to fix it was make sure that Arial was turned on permanently in my Suitcase... it should have been anyway as a system font I guess but who cares because it fixed it!
Check your Safari Preference (Command-,), and navigate to Appearance tab, double check and make sure that the Standard font is non-italic font. Mine is Times 16. Hope this helps.
In chrome to solve this you have to do the following:
paste address bar the following and hit enter: chrome://flags#disable-direct-write
Under Disable DirectWrite Windows click "Enable" (this will disable DirectWrite in fact (background becomes white)
A button labeled "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of your screen will apear. Click that button and will relaunch Chrome with the new settings, and the text should appear normal after this.
Recently had this problem on my Windows 7 machine, while running Google Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m. None of the other fixes mentioned here worked for me.
Turns out that an installed application had reregistered some basic fonts, which lead to Chrome not being able to find the fonts. In my case it was NewspaperDirect's PressReader (which I don't recall ever installing), that modified the registry so some basic fonts pointed to .ttf files stored in PressReaders program files folder.
Fix
Run regedit.exe (with admin privileges)
Navigate to the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts".
Scroll through the list of fonts, and locate any that are similar to "C:\Program Files (x86)\NewpaperDirect\PressReader\publisher\Styles\Fonts[font name].ttf"
Right click the value name and choose Modify....
Remove the directory path, so that all that remains is the file name "[font name].ttf".
Repeat 4 and 5 for all bad registry values.
Restart Chrome.
Registry value before fix
Bad registry value
Good registry value
Fixed registry value
if you have same problem with other browsers too, it may because of some errors in your fonts in windows. try to reinstall default windows font in your font folder (c:/windows/fonts). you can copy default font from another pc or download it from here :
http://www.withsteps.com/404/how-i-restored-my-windows-7-default-fonts.html
I currently only have macs for development. My site looks good in the Chrome, safari and firefox but not in IE 8. Normally I'd say too bad, use a proper browser, but that is probably not going to work with my user base. Are there ways to emulate IE 8 on the mac?
BTW if somebody wants to have a look: here is the site.
In IE 8 only the 1 first column is displayed. In chrome or firefox I don't see any warnings, apart from some javascript warnings which I fixed locally (but not on world wide web yet).
Install VirtualBox (it's free and good) or another virtualizer (VMWare, Parallels)
Convert and use one of these Microsoft VirtualPC VHDs
Test
The only way I know to do this is to run Windows with a program like Parallels and use IE that way.
I would recommend running Windows 7 and IE 9. IE 9 is not only a competent web browser, it can render pages as IE 7 or IE 8 by using the included developer tools.
Use VirtualBox or VMware with a VM from Microsoft: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
"Test Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) and versions of IE8 through IE11 using free virtual machines you download and manage locally."
Old answer from 2012:
There is CrossOver (proprietary $51). It "allows many Windows-based applications to run on Mac OS X using a compatibility layer". It is based on Wine.
It works OK (JavaScript + Flash). They provide automatic installation for Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
For Internet Explorer 8 one more step is required to get what they call a CrossTie.
You can also try WineBootler (free and based on Wine too) but it does not work very well (no JavaScript support).