Find Browser type & version?

jquery browser-detection
Arjun picture Arjun · Jun 28, 2011 · Viewed 34.2k times · Source

Anyone knows of a good and reliable way to find out type & version of a browser installed on client either using JavaScript/jQuery?

Looks like jQuery has some built-in functions, but it is having problems in detecting Chrome. Any other reliable way of doing it?

Answer

kapa picture kapa · Jun 28, 2011

If you want information about the browser that your visitor uses, and use it for statistics or displaying information to the user, you can use the jQuery Browser Plugin.

It gives you an object in javascript that contains all of the information about the browser being used.

Be sure to do feature detection instead of browser detection when you want to determine if a certain feature is available in a browser, apply bugfixes, etc.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

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