{"id":39935,"date":"2023-10-20T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/test-your-mobile-website-from-a-virtual-smartphone-browser-on-your-pc-or-mac-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:05:19","slug":"test-your-mobile-website-from-a-virtual-smartphone-browser-on-your-pc-or-mac-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/test-your-mobile-website-from-a-virtual-smartphone-browser-on-your-pc-or-mac-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Test your mobile website from a virtual smartphone browser on your PC or Mac &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/l_firefox-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_firefox-445\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Recently, I shared <a href=\"technology\/run-firefox-os-smartphone-apps-on-your-mac-or-pc\/2013102411009.html\">a little trick<\/a> that allows you to run apps for Mozilla\u2019s Firefox OS smartphone apps on your desktop computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a feature mostly designed for mobile app developers who want to create or test Firefox OS apps.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, if your business has a mobile website, it\u2019s a feature that comes in handy in a very different reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After installing the Firefox OS simulator plug-in (here\u2019s <a href=\"technology\/run-firefox-os-smartphone-apps-on-your-mac-or-pc\/2013102411009.html\">the instructions<\/a>), click the \u201cFirefox OS Simulator\u201d option under Web Developer in Firefox:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21209\" alt=\"screen-grab-1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-1.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-1.jpg 445w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-1-215x170.jpg 215w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-1-95x75.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then click the Simulator Stopped button to start the simulator:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21210\" alt=\"screen-grab-2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-2.jpg\" height=\"353\" width=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-2.jpg 445w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-2-215x171.jpg 215w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-2-95x75.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now just hit the blue button at the bottom of your simulator:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21211\" alt=\"screen-grab-3\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-3.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-3.jpg 445w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-3-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-3-215x170.jpg 215w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-3-95x75.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And there it is \u2013 the mobile version of Firefox, running within the desktop version of Firefox. It\u2019s a handy way to keep an eye on your mobile site while you update it on your desktop computer:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21212\" alt=\"screen-grab-4\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-4.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-4.jpg 445w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-4-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-4-215x170.jpg 215w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-grab-4-95x75.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I shared a little trick that allows you to run apps for Mozilla\u2019s Firefox OS smartphone apps on your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}