Testing websites with older versions of chrome

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A Web Developer based in Belgium, specialized in PHP & JS development
And if you need older versions of FireFox, it's this way https://mozilla-firefox-portable.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions
I recently needed to collect all changes in one file for reporting purposes. Found this article: https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-diff-with-new-files In case you need something similar on Windows, here

Some projects start with a grand plan. Others start because you just need to read a file without thinking too much about it. That was the case for spread-compat. I needed a common interface for CSV, X

With modern css, you can almost get rid of sass. But there is one last pain point : media queries. Not being able to use variables or an easy, common syntax for typical breakpoints is really annoying. That is, until you meet Media Queries Level 5. I’...

This is a quick article to share this demo I just made. https://codepen.io/lekoalabe/pen/JoPNWpX

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Recently I got an error that happened only on a very specific version of Chrome. In order to replicate the issue, I needed to be able to run an older version of Chrome on my computer. There are services out there to do just that, but I wanted to share a simple but effective method to do this from your own computer (windows only).
I recently discovered the use of Windows Sandbox on my Win11 machine. It's a real pleasure to work with, starts really fast and you get a fully secured sandboxed environment.
From there, simply download the chrome version of your choice from this website: https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php
All you need to do is install it and test your website :-) tadaa!
Ok that's all for today, hopefully it can help others out there.