How to test mobile website on my PC/Laptop - html

I am building a website which detects the target browser whether it is mobile or pc browser. Based on the content it choose theme.
What I want to ask is. Is there any mobile browser which I can download in my pc to test my site instead of on phone many times?

You could change the user agent to an user agent from a mobile browser. Extension on Chrome

You don't need any extensions, you can just change the User Agent manually on Chrome's Developer tools, just click on the settings Icon and then refresh the page (as you can see this page's look changes):

This is what I use normally. It is not exactly what you are looking for I think but its worth the money!

Stick with webkit browsers for mobile testing, sans Windows Phone. Don't overlook the Android SDK's emulator and, if you're on a Mac, the iOS simulator, as you may come across rendering issues that don't exist in-browser.

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Website looks differerent on different computer(s) running the same browsers

OK. This one has me stumped. It's a "asking for a friend" type of question.
My wife is an artist. She uses GoDaddy as her hosting service to display her work. She uses their tools. She's created a website and several of her paintings are there.
Her computer is a 27" iMac with MacOS 10.15.7 Catalina, retina display etc.
After she's done, she goes to her website and some pictures of her work have the wrong size.
ALL THREE BROWSERS-> Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
And this is after blasting all cookies/caches etc. (everywhere)
When I look using my home computer (Linux Mint) with either Chrome or Firefox, it looks OK.
When I look using my work computer (Windows 10) using Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Explorer, it looks OK.
When she looks with her MacBook laptop using Firefox, Chrome or Safari, it looks OK.
So it's only on her computer that the website looks a bit funky. Strange thing is that when she uses the GoDaddy website to create/modify her own website, the "preview mode" looks OK.
It's only when she actually points any of her browsers to her website does the rendering behave strangely.
GoDaddy tech support suggested the usual "clear cache/cookies/whatever and reboot". Same problem.
I tried changing the IP address and MAC on her computer but there is no difference.
Ideas?
it may be of high resolution, the responsiveness of the screen varies between different screen size
This can happen because of many things like -
Using Extensions or other apps in browsers can cause this issue.
Open the site and right-click on the site and click on inspect where you find changes and see the code and refer to your code whether there is any change? if there is a change then this is because of Media queries that have a breakpoint based on the screen width.
If the above ones are not the issue download a fresh copy of the browser and open the site then check and inspect.

Responsiveness - iPad in Chrome vs iPad in Mozilla Firefox

I am developing a website in a Windows system. I have Firefox and Chrome browsers installed. When I checked the responsiveness of my webpage by setting the device as iPad(768 X 1024) using 'inspect element' feature in these browsers, I could get different resultant UI for same device. Why is it so? On which browser can I rely on as I don't have any Mac/Apple devices with me to test? I am concerned of using other online web tools due to security issues. Please help. Thanks in advance.
There's a tool for checking responsiveness called browserstack. You can try it from here: https://www.browserstack.com. They're offering free trial.
Unfortunately there's no real substitute for device testing. Companies like BrowserStack offer real remote device testing but at a cost. With regard to browsers rendering differently, this has always been a pain. Look at CSS resets.

debugging a website on a mobile device

I have a website that uses (except for other things) AngularJS. This website works perfectly fine on (example):
Google Chrome
IE
Firefox
iOS
Android
However I am having problems with Windows 10 mobile as one of the features is not working correctly (to be more precise it is $interval).
When testing my app on one of the browsers I view website via Web Inspector and go to background code to inspect where exactly the app fails. However I have no idea how to fix the problems that occur on mobile devices - such as Windows 10 Mobile?
How can one debug websites on a mobile device?
Windows 10 Mobile has Edge Browser. Try debugging it in that.
This is might be helpful.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/documentation/f12-devtools-guide/
for the debugging tool you can use
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn255001(v=vs.85).aspx

Debugging on iOS safari

I'm making my portfolio website and I'm using pure HTML 5 no .js the about page doesn't work on iPhone and doesn't scroll everything together some of the elements positions are fixed and don't scroll. I don't own an iPhone but is there anyway to simulate the iOS on computer so I can debug the page? And is there such a tool like "inspect element" in chrome on the iOS safari? If not how can I debug and find how the browser is rendering wrong on the phone? Cause I validated my code and it's supposed to work, but its not!
You can simulate iOS using Xcode and Mac OS.
And for the debug purpose there is no inspect element in Simulator. Yes you can take a help of Accessibility Inspector
In the Simulator >> Go to Settings >> General >> Accessibility
Turn on Accessibility Inspector - This will help you to inspect different elements.
Something important to bear in mind is that because of Apple's policies, all browsers must use Safari’s layout engine to render pages, that means there are very few differences in rendering a page between Safari and other browsers on iOS.
There are two methods that you can use to debug a web page running on your iOS device on your using a browser on your Mac or Windows computer:
1. Debug using a Mac
If you have a Mac, you already have tools to live-inspect and debug web pages on your iOS device.
See here: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html
2. Debug using Windows
Xcode and MacOS are not the only way to debug websites running in a browser on OSX. There's a few ways:
Telerik
WineRE
I personally use Edge Inspect when I'm forced to use Windows.
Adobe Edge Inspect
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/edge-inspect/articles/browser-testing-across-devices-with-adobe-edge-inspect.html

In Nitrous.io, Is there a way to input stuff for the console in iOS?

The keyboard won't show up for console, and it is only for the editor. Is it possible there is some workaround about this? It is so close to fully support iOS!
Even better if nitrous.io guy can address this issue...
iOS is not officially supported so your mileage may vary when using an iPad, iPhone as well as other mobile devices.
Full iOS support is in our roadmap, I suggest following #nitrousio for product announcements.
Bluetooth keyboard works (in Chrome and Safari). Just tap inside the console area twice, then start typing.
Another option is to install a code editor (like Diet Coda) which provides an SSH console.