Our stimulus package

We're not giving out billions of dollars, but we are rolling out some new features that we hope you will like. A lot of work has gone into enhancing the infrastructure to improve performance and stability. These changes are not necessarily visible except that they enable us to add other features.

For example, one thing you will notice when you launch a session is that you now have the ability to select a resolution before the session launches. Besides the obvious new capability of being able to test sites at the resolution you choose, this has the advantage of allowing you to control the performance of the session to some degree. The smaller the resolution, the more responsive the service will be. The changes that allow for this feature also give us the ability to automatically reconnect you if the applet has an error. Nice huh?

Another feature we hope you will like is the new Send Text feature. It is not exactly the same as cut and paste, but it will help you enter those long URLs a lot easier than before. Simply enter your text in the provided field and click the Send Text button. The remote session will then type in the text you sent into whatever text box has focus. We will also keep a copy of the text you enter so that you can access it in the future. It even has a nifty type ahead feature that lets you start typing and it will find matches from any part of a previous entry. Very cool, right?

Lastly, we'd like to mention to the handful of people out there that have opened up ports on your router, you will need to make some changes. You should not be using the static IP as it will be changing in the next couple of weeks, use www.crossbrowsertesting.com instead. Also, our port range is changing to 6020-6040.

That is all for this announcement. We just wanted to keep you all apprised of what we are working on and how we are trying to improve the service. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

Regards,
the CrossBrowserTesting team
P.S. When those stimulus checks do start rolling in, remember that we do have a great deal going on right now. ;-)