Screenshotator runs Internet Explorer inside

Feed Viewer aims to deliver the best visual experience. Finding the dominant image on a page is not an easy task. Sometimes even the best approach fails, especially when the article you want to read does not contain any images. When this occurs, a screenshot of the whole page is taken and used as a representative image. This cannot be done by the Feed Viewer browser because it is text-based. Instead, the screenshot is taken by another widely used browser. We started with Firefox, later switched to Chrome, and finally discovered that Internet Explorer perfectly fits our needs. Using IE for taking screenshots in a virtual machine is a bit tricky and takes more time to implement, but once it runs, it runs forever. Previous Firefox or Chrome-based solutions were unstable due to frequent breaking changes in browser updates. The Internet Explorer-based solution enables upgrading to the latest version with minimal effort.