Testing web application on Mac Safari when I don t own a Mac

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Having been caught out recently when a web site I launched displayed perfectly on IE  Firefox  Chrome and Safari on Windows but was corrupted when viewed using Safari on the Mac  by a potential customer   I need to start testing how my sites look when viewed on a Mac     Problem is  I don t own a Mac   I ve tried BrowsrCamp  which claims to provide VNC access to a Mac with lots of browsers installed  but after finding it unreliable  so far  it s worked 1 day in the last 5  I need another solution   Any suggestions

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There s a free trial for 100 minutes on https   browserling com and you can test on Safari v7 0 during the trial period

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Amazon AWS recently launched macOS EC2 instances  As of now  Dec 2020  they are pretty pricey  you have to reserve them minimum for 24h  You can connect to the instance via VNC  sample guide for connecting from Windows  and test your browser

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The best site to test website and see them realtime on MAC Safari is by using  Browserstack  They have like 25 free minutes of first time testing and then 10 free mins each day  You can even test your pages from your local PC by using their WEB TUNNEL Feature  I tested 7 to 8 pages in browserstack   And I think they have some java debugging tool in the upper right corner that is great help

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If it s a major concern to start doing a lot of testing on a Mac  then I would definitely suggest buying a second hand Mac  or perhaps building a Hackintosh  The former gets you up and running quickly  the latter gives you a lot of power for the same price   For just the odd piece of testing  running OS X in VMWare on your current PC is a cheaper option

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For my case  a small  personal project  https   www lambdatest com  was very helpful  Free tier allows for 6 sessions per month

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A  Install VirtualBox and download free MacOS High Sierra image  See tutorial here  https   www wikigain com install-macos-high-sierra-virtualbox-windows   You will get the latest Safari   You don t need to pay for those online services     Use these vbox settings to increase resolution and memory  but it is still very laggy and slow   cd  C  Program Files Oracle VirtualBox   VBoxManage setextradata  macOS  VBoxInternal2 EfiGraphicsResolution 1920x1080 VBoxManage modifyvm  macOS  --vram 256   B  Alternatively try VMware   which seems to be much faster  youtube com watch v K7E UqgCFbQ  video taken down  - use google   you need VMware   MacOs ISO image    edit  It is significantly faster

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Litmus may help you  It will take screenshots of your webpage s  in a wide variety of browsers so you can make sure that your site works in all of them  A free alternative  Litmus is a paid service  is Browsershots  but you do get what you pay for   In some screenshots that Browershots returns  the browser hasn t yet finished loading the webpage      Of course  as other people have suggested  buying a Mac is also a good solution  and may be better  depending on the kind of testing you need to do   because then you can test your website yourself in any of the browsers that run under Mac OS X or Windows

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https   turbo net  offers a browser sandbox in which containerised virtual machines run browser sessions for you  I tried it with Safari on my Windows development machine and it seems to work very well

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Unfortunately you cannot run MacOS X on anything but a genuine Mac   MacOS X Server however can be run in VMWare  A stopgap solution would be to install it inside a VM  But you should be aware that MacOS X Server and MacOS X are not exactly the same  and your testing is not going to be exactly what the user has  Not to mention the  499 price tag   Simplest way is to buy yourself a cheap mac mini or a laptop with a broken screen used on ebay  plug it onto your network and access it via VNC to do your testing

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These sites may help    Browsera Browsershots

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https   appetize io demo device iphone8 amp scale 75 amp orientation portrait amp osVersion 13 3 60 seconds is enought for test  Isn t need to register account to

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Meanwhile  MacOS High Sierra can be run in VirtualBox  on a PC  for Free  It s not really fast but it works for general browser testing   How to setup see here  https   www howtogeek com 289594 how-to-install-macos-sierra-in-virtualbox-on-windows-10   I m using this for a while now and it works quite well

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