Feature Suggestion / Request: Ability to live preview websites instead of screenshots

I know BrowserLab behind the scenes uses licenced operating systems to be able to offer so many different test combinations like Mac and Windows testing with various browsers, but I would like the ability to be able to interact with my sites and do things such as click elements that trigger modal boxes and other things like text input actions.
Is this something that will eventually happen? It's a bit of an inconevience to use the Firebug extension to test certain parts of my sites especially for actions like modal boxes and things that happen after certain events are triggered like logging in or Javascript validation on a login form showing errors to a user if they missed something.

We hear this request frequently, and understand why you'd want to be able to interact with a live page.
We have multiple datacenters for our browser server machines, which are shared by all BrowserLab users. These browser servers each handle dozens/hundreds of of screenshot requests per minute, from all of the users that are currently using the service. To support live testing, each user would have to have a dedicated machine that could only serve that one user while they are live testing. This would significantly increase the number of browser servers we would need to run the BrowserLab service, which of course would significantly increase the costs of running the service. Licensing restrictions are also a major factor when considering offering live testing. Combined, these factors mean that we're unlikely to offer a true live testing environment for BrowserLab.
We are considering some innovative new features that would allow you to achieve the results you're looking for, without having to dedicate a machine per user. We're actively exploring these as we plan the future of BrowserLab.
In the meantime, if you haven't already, consider taking a look at Dreamweaver where we've added some nice integration with BrowserLab. Dreamweaver has a feature called Live View, which is a fully featured WebKit browser built into the product. You can browse the pages you're creating, and drive them into specific states, then Freeze JavaScript. Once you have the page frozen in the state you want to test, you can send it to BrowserLab to see your page rendered in that state across all browsers. If you aren't using Dreamweaver, or prefer, you can use Firefox with Firebug and our BrowserLab for Firebug extension to achieve similar results.
If you absolutely must have live testing, you can find some online services that will rent time to you on their machines. I have tried many of these and generally found them to be expensive, and with their own issues. But if you have to have live testing, this may be a solution for you.
Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback. I hope this helps you understand our position.
Bruce
Bruce Bowman
BrowserLab product manager

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