Cross browser compatibility – which browsers should you install?

To test your code, you will need all the modern web browsers. In your list, you should have the following browsers:

Internet Explorer (IE) is the biggest issue in frontend developers' lives because you will need a bunch of IEs on your machine, for example, 9, 10, and 11. The list is getting smaller because back in the days the list was longer. IE6, 7, 8, 9, and so on. Now IE6, 7, and 8 are mostly not supported by the biggest web projects like YouTube and Facebook. But it sometimes occurs in big companies in which the changing of operating systems is a pretty complicated process.

To easily test your code on a bunch of browsers, it is good to use online tools dedicated for this test:

But an easy and free way to do it is to create a virtual machine on your computer and use the system and browser which you need. To collect the required versions of IE, you can refer to http://modern.ie. With modern.ie, you can select the IE version you need and your version of virtual machine platform (VirtualBox, Parallels, Vagrant, VMware).