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odle
odle

Reputation: 5272

How can you detect the version of a browser?

I've been searching around for code that would let me detect if the user visiting the website has Firefox 3 or 4. All I have found is code to detect the type of browser but not the version.

How can I detect the version of a browser like this?

Upvotes: 351

Views: 521450

Answers (30)

Eugene
Eugene

Reputation: 1170

For the latest Chrome versions (>110) they start cutting full browser version in User Agent. Like you have 128.0.6613.85 but in UA it is 128.0.0.0 But you still can get it with this:

if (navigator.userAgentData) {
  navigator.userAgentData.getHighEntropyValues(["fullVersionList"])
    .then(ua => {
      const chromeVersion = ua.fullVersionList.find(item => item.brand === "Google Chrome");
      if (chromeVersion) {
        console.log("Full Chrome version:", chromeVersion.version);
      } else {
        console.log("Chrome version not found");
      }
    })
    .catch(error => console.error("Error getting version:", error));
} else {
  console.log("User-Agent Client Hints not supported");
}

Upvotes: 0

john-jones
john-jones

Reputation: 7780

This is an improvement on Kennebec's answer.

mbrowser=function(){
    this.spec_string=   navigator.userAgent;
    this.name=          this.get_name();
    this.version=       this.get_version();
    };

mbrowser.prototype.get_name=function(){
    var spec_string=this.spec_string;

    var matches=spec_string.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
    
    // Work with the matches.
    matches=matches[2]? [matches[1], matches[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
        
    // Trident.
    if(/trident/i.test(matches[1])){
        var temp=/\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(spec_string) || [];
        return 'IE';
        }
    
    // Chrome.
    if(matches[1]==='Chrome'){
        var temp=spec_string.match(/\bOPR|Edge\/(\d+)/)
        if(temp!=null)   {return 'Opera';}
        }   

    if((temp=spec_string.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!=null){
        matches.splice(1,1,temp[1]);
        }
                                                                                                                       
    var name=matches[0];

    return name;
    };


mbrowser.prototype.get_version=function(){
    var spec_string=this.spec_string;

    var matches=spec_string.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || []; 

    // Work with the matches.
    matches=matches[2]? [matches[1], matches[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];

    // Trident.
    if(/trident/i.test(matches[1])){
        var temp=/\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(spec_string) || []; 
        var version=(temp[1]||'');
        return version;
        }   

    // Chrome.
    if(matches[1]==='Chrome'){
        var temp=spec_string.match(/\bOPR|Edge\/(\d+)/)
        var version=temp[1];
        if(temp!=null)   {return version;}
        }   

    if((temp=spec_string.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!=null){
        matches.splice(1,1,temp[1]);                                                                                   
        }

    var version=matches[1];

    return version;
    };

// m=module.
var browser=new mbrowser();
console.log(browser.name);    // Chrome
console.log(browser.version); // 109

This code deduces browser name and number from the spec_string (navigator.userAgent). But there are all kinds of spec_strings out there with their respective browser name and number. And I'm not in a situation to check but a tiny proportion of them. It would be great if you could post a spec_string whose resulting browser name and number you know. I can then update the code accordingly.

I would then slowly build up a list of spec_string items in the following manner.

'spec_string1'=>[name,number],
'spec_string2'=>[name,number],

Then in the future, whenever a change is made to the code it can automatically be tested on all known spec_string conversions.

We can do this together.

Upvotes: 238

Shovan
Shovan

Reputation: 225

An updated code to detect browsers from iOS.

navigator.sayswho= (function(){
var ua= navigator.userAgent;
var tem; 
var M= ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
    tem=  /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
    return 'IE '+(tem[1] || '');
}
if(M[1]=== 'Chrome'){
    tem= ua.match(/\b(OPR)\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem!= null) return 'Opera '+ tem.slice(1)[1];
    tem= ua.match(/\b(Edg[a-zA-Z]{0,3})\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem!= null) return 'Edge '+ tem.slice(1)[1];
} else if(M[1]=== 'Safari') {
    tem= ua.match(/\b(EdgiOS)\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem!= null) return 'Edge '+ tem.slice(1)[1];
    tem= ua.match(/\b(FxiOS)\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem!= null) return 'Firefox '+ tem.slice(1)[1];
    tem= ua.match(/\b(CriOS)\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem!= null) return 'Chrome '+ tem.slice(1)[1];
} 
M= M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
if((tem= ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!= null) M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
return M.join(' ');

})();

Upvotes: 1

Advoot
Advoot

Reputation: 831

Why not another one liner solution:

navigator.userAgent.includes("Firefox")? log("Mozilla") :log("Chrome")

Upvotes: 0

Danail Gabenski
Danail Gabenski

Reputation: 3690

I was looking for a solution for myself, since jQuery 1.9.1 and above have removed the $.browser functionality. I came up with this little function that works for me. It does need a global variable (I've called mine _browser) in order to check which browser it is. I've written a jsfiddle to illustrate how it can be used, of course it can be expanded for other browsers by just adding a test for _browser.foo, where foo is the name of the browser. I did just the popular ones.

detectBrowser()

_browser = {};

function detectBrowser() {
  var uagent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(),
      match = '';
    
  _browser.chrome  = /webkit/.test(uagent)  && /chrome/.test(uagent)      &&
                     !/edge/.test(uagent);

  _browser.firefox = /mozilla/.test(uagent) && /firefox/.test(uagent);

  _browser.msie    = /msie/.test(uagent)    || /trident/.test(uagent)     ||
                     /edge/.test(uagent);

  _browser.safari  = /safari/.test(uagent)  && /applewebkit/.test(uagent) &&
                     !/chrome/.test(uagent);

  _browser.opr     = /mozilla/.test(uagent) && /applewebkit/.test(uagent) &&
                     /chrome/.test(uagent)  && /safari/.test(uagent)      &&
                     /opr/.test(uagent);

  _browser.version = '';
    
  for (x in _browser) {
    if (_browser[x]) {

      match = uagent.match(
                new RegExp("(" + (x === "msie" ? "msie|edge" : x) + ")( |\/)([0-9]+)")
              );

      if (match) {
        _browser.version = match[3];
      } else {
        match = uagent.match(new RegExp("rv:([0-9]+)"));
        _browser.version = match ? match[1] : "";
      }
      break;
    }
  }
  _browser.opera = _browser.opr;
  delete _browser.opr;
}

detectBrowser();

console.log(_browser)

To check if the current browser is Opera you would do

if (_browser.opera) { // Opera specific code }

Edit Fixed the formatting, fixed the detection for IE11 and Opera/Chrome, changed to browserResult from result. Now the order of the _browser keys doesn't matter. Updated jsFiddle link.

2015/08/11 Edit Added new testcase for Internet Explorer 12 (EDGE), fixed a small regexp problem. Updated jsFiddle link.

Upvotes: 16

Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 3707

This combines kennebec's (K) answer with Hermann Ingjaldsson's (H) answer:

  • Maintains original answer's minimal code. (K)
  • Works with Microsoft Edge (K)
  • Extends the navigator object instead of creating a new variable/object. (K)
  • Separates browser version and name into independent child objects. (H)

 

    navigator.browserSpecs = (function(){
        var ua = navigator.userAgent, tem, 
            M = ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
        if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
            tem = /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
            return {name:'IE',version:(tem[1] || '')};
        }
        if(M[1]=== 'Chrome'){
            tem = ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);
            if(tem != null) return {name:tem[1].replace('OPR', 'Opera'),version:tem[2]};
        }
        M = M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
        if((tem = ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!= null)
            M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
        return {name:M[0], version:M[1]};
    })();

    console.log(navigator.browserSpecs); //Object { name: "Firefox", version: "42" }

    if (navigator.browserSpecs.name == 'Firefox') {
        // Do something for Firefox.
        if (navigator.browserSpecs.version > 42) {
            // Do something for Firefox versions greater than 42.
        }
    }
    else {
        // Do something for all other browsers.
    }

Upvotes: 58

Jorgesys
Jorgesys

Reputation: 126563

Based on the accepted answer, this is an update for detecting "Microsoft Edge"

navigator.sayswho= (function(){
    var ua= navigator.userAgent;
    var tem; 
    var M= ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
    if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
        tem=  /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
        return 'IE '+(tem[1] || '');
    }
    if(M[1]=== 'Chrome'){
        tem= ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edg)\/(\d+)/);
        if(tem!= null) return tem.slice(1).join(' ').replace('OPR', 'Opera');
    }
    M= M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if((tem= ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!= null) M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
    return M.join(' ');
})();

console.log(navigator.sayswho);

Upvotes: 1

kennebec
kennebec

Reputation: 104850

You can see what the browser says, and use that information for logging or testing multiple browsers.

navigator.sayswho= (function(){
    var ua= navigator.userAgent;
    var tem; 
    var M= ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
    if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
        tem=  /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
        return 'IE '+(tem[1] || '');
    }
    if(M[1]=== 'Chrome'){
        tem= ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);
        if(tem!= null) return tem.slice(1).join(' ').replace('OPR', 'Opera');
    }
    M= M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if((tem= ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!= null) M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
    return M.join(' ');
})();

console.log(navigator.sayswho); // outputs: `Chrome 62`

Upvotes: 580

Ramya
Ramya

Reputation: 251

This got me the version of Firefox,

    let versionNumber = parseInt(window.navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\/([0- 
    9]+)\./)[1]);

Upvotes: 0

firstlord
firstlord

Reputation: 161

For chromium browser is so simple.

Version : navigator.userAgentData.brands[0].version

Browser Name : navigator.userAgentData.brands[0].brand

Upvotes: 0

Suryanshu Sahay
Suryanshu Sahay

Reputation: 41

For this you need to check the value of navigator.appVersion or navigator.userAgent Try using:

console.log(navigator.appVersion)

Upvotes: 4

Gaetan LOISEL-MONTACQ
Gaetan LOISEL-MONTACQ

Reputation: 383

I use this piece of javascript code based on what I could find in another posts.

var browserHelper = function () {
    var self = {};

    /// IE 6+
    self.isIEBrowser = function () {
        return /*@cc_on!@*/false || !!document.documentMode;
    };

    /// Opera 8.0+
    self.isOperaBrowser = function () {
        return (!!window.opr && !!opr.addons)
            || !!window.opera
            || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(' OPR/') >= 0;
    };

    /// Firefox 1.0+
    self.isFirefoxBrowser = function () {
        return typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined';
    };

    /// Safari 3.0+
    self.isSafariBrowser = function () {
        return /constructor/i.test(window.HTMLElement)
            || (function (p) { return p.toString() === "[object SafariRemoteNotification]"; })(!window['safari'] || (typeof safari !== 'undefined' && window['safari'].pushNotification));
    };

    /// Edge 20+
    self.isEdgeBrowser = function () {
        return !self.isIEBrowser() && !!window.StyleMedia;
    };

    /// Chrome 1 - 87
    self.isChromeBrowser = function () {
        return (!!window.chrome && (!!window.chrome.webstore || !!window.chrome.runtime))
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") > -1) && !self.isOperaBrowser();
    };

    /// Edge (based on chromium)
    self.isEdgeChromiumBrowser = function () {
        return self.isChromeBrowser() && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Edg") != -1);
    };

    /// Blink
    self.isBlinkBasedOnBrowser = function () {
        return (self.isChromeBrowser() || self.isOperaBrowser()) && !!window.CSS;
    };

    /// Returns the name of the navigator
    self.browserName = function () {

        if (self.isOperaBrowser()) return "Opera";

        if (self.isEdgeBrowser()) return "Edge";

        if (self.isEdgeChromiumBrowser()) return "Edge (based on chromium)";

        if (self.isFirefoxBrowser()) return "Firefox";

        if (self.isIEBrowser()) return "Internet Explorer";

        if (self.isSafariBrowser()) return "Safari";

        if (self.isChromeBrowser()) return "Chrome";

        return "Unknown";
    };
    
    return self;
};

var bName = document.getElementById('browserName');
bName.innerText = browserHelper().browserName();
#browserName {
  font-family: Arial, Verdana;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  color: #ff8000;
  text-align: center;
  border: 2px solid #ff8000;
  border-radius: .5rem;
  padding: .5rem;
  max-width: 25%;
  margin: auto;
}
<div id="browserName"></div>

Upvotes: 0

YunHan
YunHan

Reputation: 101

This is a Update on Fzs2 & kennebec For New Edge Chromium

function get_browser() {
    var ua=navigator.userAgent,tem,M=ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || []; 
    if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
        tem=/\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || []; 
        return {name:'IE',version:(tem[1]||'')};
        }   
    if(M[1]==='Chrome'){
        tem=ua.match(/\bEdg\/(\d+)/)
        if(tem!=null)   {return {name:'Edge(Chromium)', version:tem[1]};}
        tem=ua.match(/\bOPR\/(\d+)/)
        if(tem!=null)   {return {name:'Opera', version:tem[1]};}
        }   
    M=M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if((tem=ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!=null) {M.splice(1,1,tem[1]);}
    return {
      name: M[0],
      version: M[1]
    };
 }

var browser=get_browser(); // browser.name = 'Edge(Chromium)'
                           // browser.version = '86'

console.log(browser);

Upvotes: 9

Ankit
Ankit

Reputation: 632

Detecting Browser and Its version

This code snippet is based on the article from MDN. Where they gave a brief hint about various keywords that can be used to detect the browser name.

reference

I have done few changes to detect browsers like Edge and UCBrowser

getBrowser = () => {
    const userAgent = navigator.userAgent;
    let browser = "unkown";
    // Detect browser name
    browser = (/ucbrowser/i).test(userAgent) ? 'UCBrowser' : browser;
    browser = (/edg/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Edge' : browser;
    browser = (/googlebot/i).test(userAgent) ? 'GoogleBot' : browser;
    browser = (/chromium/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Chromium' : browser;
    browser = (/firefox|fxios/i).test(userAgent) && !(/seamonkey/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Firefox' : browser;
    browser = (/; msie|trident/i).test(userAgent) && !(/ucbrowser/i).test(userAgent) ? 'IE' : browser;
    browser = (/chrome|crios/i).test(userAgent) && !(/opr|opera|chromium|edg|ucbrowser|googlebot/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Chrome' : browser;;
    browser = (/safari/i).test(userAgent) && !(/chromium|edg|ucbrowser|chrome|crios|opr|opera|fxios|firefox/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Safari' : browser;
    browser = (/opr|opera/i).test(userAgent) ? 'Opera' : browser;

    // detect browser version
    switch (browser) {
        case 'UCBrowser': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(ucbrowser)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Edge': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(edge|edga|edgios|edg)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'GoogleBot': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(googlebot)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Chromium': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(chromium)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Firefox': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(firefox|fxios)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Chrome': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(chrome|crios)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Safari': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(safari)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'Opera': return `${browser}/${browserVersion(userAgent,/(opera|opr)\/([\d\.]+)/i)}`;
        case 'IE': const version = browserVersion(userAgent,/(trident)\/([\d\.]+)/i);
            // IE version is mapped using trident version 
            // IE/8.0 = Trident/4.0, IE/9.0 = Trident/5.0
            return version ? `${browser}/${parseFloat(version) + 4.0}` : `${browser}/7.0`;
        default: return `unknown/0.0.0.0`;
    }
}

browserVersion = (userAgent,regex) => {
    return userAgent.match(regex) ? userAgent.match(regex)[2] : null;
}

console.log(getBrowser());

Upvotes: 6

GoharSahi
GoharSahi

Reputation: 684

navigator.sayswho= (function(){
    var ua= navigator.userAgent, tem, 
    M= ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
    if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
        tem=  /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
        return 'IE '+(tem[1] || '');
    }
    if(M[1]=== 'Chrome'){
        tem= ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);
        if(tem!= null) return tem.slice(1).join(' ').replace('OPR', 'Opera');
    }
    M= M[2]? [M[1], M[2]]: [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if((tem= ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i))!= null) M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
    return M.join(' ');
})();

console.log(navigator.sayswho); // outputs: `Chrome 62`

Upvotes: 2

KyleMit
KyleMit

Reputation: 30327

Here are several prominent libraries that handle browser detection as of May 2019.

Bowser by lancedikson - 3,761★s - Last updated May 26, 2019 - 4.8KB

var result = bowser.getParser(window.navigator.userAgent);
console.log(result);
document.write("You are using " + result.parsedResult.browser.name +
               " v" + result.parsedResult.browser.version + 
               " on " + result.parsedResult.os.name);
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/es5.js"></script>

*supports Edge based on Chromium

Platform.js by bestiejs - 2,250★s - Last updated Oct 30, 2018 - 5.9KB

console.log(platform);
document.write("You are using " + platform.name +
               " v" + platform.version + 
               " on " + platform.os);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/platform/1.3.5/platform.min.js"></script>

jQuery Browser by gabceb - 504★s - Last updated Nov 23, 2015 - 1.3KB

console.log($.browser)
document.write("You are using " + $.browser.name +
               " v" + $.browser.versionNumber + 
               " on " + $.browser.platform);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-browser/0.1.0/jquery.browser.min.js"></script>

Detect.js (Archived) by darcyclarke - 522★s - Last updated Oct 26, 2015 - 2.9KB

var result = detect.parse(navigator.userAgent);
console.log(result);
document.write("You are using " + result.browser.family +
               " v" + result.browser.version + 
               " on " + result.os.family);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Detect.js/2.2.2/detect.min.js"></script>

Browser Detect (Archived) by QuirksMode - Last updated Nov 14, 2013 - 884B

console.log(BrowserDetect)
document.write("You are using " + BrowserDetect.browser +
               " v" + BrowserDetect.version + 
               " on " + BrowserDetect.OS);
<script src="https://kylemit.github.io/libraries/libraries/BrowserDetect.js"></script>

Notable Mentions:

  • WhichBrowser - 1,355★s - Last updated Oct 2, 2018
  • Modernizr - 23,397★s - Last updated Jan 12, 2019 - To feed a fed horse, feature detection should drive any canIuse style questions. Browser detection is really just for providing customized images, download files, or instructions for individual browsers.

Further Reading

Upvotes: 72

Christiyan
Christiyan

Reputation: 534

I want to share this code I wrote for the issue I had to resolve. It was tested in most of the major browsers and works like a charm, for me!

It may seems that this code is very similar to the other answers but it modifyed so that I can use it insted of the browser object in jquery which missed for me recently, of course it is a combination from the above codes, with little improvements from my part I made:

(function($, ua){

var M = ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [],
    tem, 
    res;

if(/trident/i.test(M[1])){
    tem = /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
    res = 'IE ' + (tem[1] || '');
}
else if(M[1] === 'Chrome'){
    tem = ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);
    if(tem != null) 
        res = tem.slice(1).join(' ').replace('OPR', 'Opera');
    else
        res = [M[1], M[2]];
}
else {
    M = M[2]? [M[1], M[2]] : [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if((tem = ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i)) != null) M = M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
    res = M;
}

res = typeof res === 'string'? res.split(' ') : res;

$.browser = {
    name: res[0],
    version: res[1],
    msie: /msie|ie/i.test(res[0]),
    firefox: /firefox/i.test(res[0]),
    opera: /opera/i.test(res[0]),
    chrome: /chrome/i.test(res[0]),
    edge: /edge/i.test(res[0])
}

})(typeof jQuery != 'undefined'? jQuery : window.$, navigator.userAgent);

 console.log($.browser.name, $.browser.version, $.browser.msie); 
// if IE 11 output is: IE 11 true

Upvotes: 2

Binyamin
Binyamin

Reputation: 7803

Here this has better compatibility then @kennebec snippet;
will return browser name and version (returns 72 instead of 72.0.3626.96).

Tested on Safari, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, IE, Edge, UCBrowser, also on mobile.

function browser() {
    var userAgent = navigator.userAgent,
        match = userAgent.match(/(opera|chrome|crios|safari|ucbrowser|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [],
        result = {},
        tem;

    if (/trident/i.test(match[1])) {
        tem = /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(userAgent) || [];
        result.name = "Internet Explorer";
    } else if (match[1] === "Chrome") {
        tem = userAgent.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);

        if (tem && tem[1]) {
            result.name = tem[0].indexOf("Edge") === 0 ? "Edge" : "Opera";
        }
    }
    if (!result.name) {
        tem = userAgent.match(/version\/(\d+)/i); // iOS support
        result.name = match[0].replace(/\/.*/, "");

        if (result.name.indexOf("MSIE") === 0) {
            result.name = "Internet Explorer";
        }
        if (userAgent.match("CriOS")) {
            result.name = "Chrome";
        }

    }
    if (tem && tem.length) {
        match[match.length - 1] = tem[tem.length - 1];
    }

    result.version = Number(match[match.length - 1]);

    return result;
}

Upvotes: 2

user3248738
user3248738

Reputation: 21

For any PWA application using angular you can put the code to check if browser is supported or not in body section of index.html -

<body>
    <div id="browser"></div>
    <script>
        var operabrowser = true;
        operabrowser = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera Mini') > -1);
        if (operabrowser) {
            txt = "<p>Browser not supported use different browser...</p>";
            document.getElementById("browser").innerHTML = txt;
        }
    </script>
</body>

Upvotes: 1

Fabian Montoya
Fabian Montoya

Reputation: 447

I use this to get de Name and number (int) of the version of the actual browser:

function getInfoBrowser() {
    var ua = navigator.userAgent, tem,
    M = ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [];
    if (/trident/i.test(M[1])) {
        tem = /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
        return { name: 'Explorer', version: parseInt((tem[1] || '')) };
    }
    if (M[1] === 'Chrome') {
        tem = ua.match(/\b(OPR|Edge)\/(\d+)/);
        if (tem != null) { let app = tem.slice(1).toString().split(','); return { name: app[0].replace('OPR', 'Opera'), version: parseInt(app[1]) }; }
    }
    M = M[2] ? [M[1], M[2]] : [navigator.appName, navigator.appVersion, '-?'];
    if ((tem = ua.match(/version\/(\d+)/i)) != null) M.splice(1, 1, tem[1]);
    return {
        name: M[0],
        version: parseInt(M[1])
    };
}

function getBrowser(){
  let info = getInfoBrowser();
  $("#i-name").html(info.name);
  $("#i-version").html(info.version);
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<input type="button" onclick="getBrowser();" value="Get Info Browser"/>
<hr/>
Name: <span id="i-name"></span><br/>
Version: <span id="i-version"></span>

This run in

Chrome ; Firefox ; Safari ; Internet Explorer (>= 9) ; Opera ; Edge

For me.

Upvotes: 1

Rajesh Britto
Rajesh Britto

Reputation: 1

var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
var browserName = navigator.appName;
var fullVersion = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
var nameOffset, verOffset, ix;

// In Opera 15+, the true version is after "OPR/" 
if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("OPR/")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Opera";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 4);
}
// In older Opera, the true version is after "Opera" or after "Version"
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Opera")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Opera";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);
    if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Version")) != -1)
        fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
// In MSIE, the true version is after "MSIE" in userAgent
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("MSIE")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Microsoft Internet Explorer";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
}
// In Chrome, the true version is after "Chrome" 
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Chrome")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Google Chrome";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
}
// In Safari, the true version is after "Safari" or after "Version" 
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Safari")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Safari";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
    if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Version")) != -1)
        fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
// In Firefox, the true version is after "Firefox" 
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf("Firefox")) != -1) {
    browserName = "Mozilla Firefox";
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
// In most other browsers, "name/version" is at the end of userAgent 
else if ((nameOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1) < (verOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf('/'))) {
    browserName = nAgt.substring(nameOffset, verOffset);
    fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 1);
    if (browserName.toLowerCase() == browserName.toUpperCase()) {
        browserName = navigator.appName;
    }
}
// trim the fullVersion string at semicolon/space if present
if ((ix = fullVersion.indexOf(';')) != -1) fullVersion = fullVersion.substring(0, ix);
if ((ix = fullVersion.indexOf(' ')) != -1) fullVersion = fullVersion.substring(0, ix);

majorVersion = parseInt('' + fullVersion, 10);
if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
    fullVersion = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
    majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
}

Upvotes: -1

relic
relic

Reputation: 1704

Adding my own implementation of Hermann's answer. I needed OS detection so that's been added. Also includes some ES6 code (because we have a transpiler) that you might need to ES5-ify.

detectClient() {
    let nav = navigator.appVersion,
        os = 'unknown',
        client = (() => {
            let agent = navigator.userAgent,
                engine = agent.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*(\d+)/i) || [],
                build;

            if(/trident/i.test(engine[1])){
                build = /\brv[ :]+(\d+)/g.exec(agent) || [];
                return {browser:'IE', version:(build[1] || '')};
            }

            if(engine[1] === 'Chrome'){
                build = agent.match(/\bOPR\/(\d+)/);

                if(build !== null) {
                    return {browser: 'Opera', version: build[1]};
                }
            }

            engine = engine[2] ? [engine[1], engine[2]] : [navigator.appName, nav, '-?'];

            if((build = agent.match(/version\/(\d+)/i)) !== null) {
                engine.splice(1, 1, build[1]);
            }

            return {
              browser: engine[0],
              version: engine[1]
            };
        })();

    switch (true) {
        case nav.indexOf('Win') > -1:
            os = 'Windows';
        break;
        case nav.indexOf('Mac') > -1:
            os = 'MacOS';
        break;
        case nav.indexOf('X11') > -1:
            os = 'UNIX';
        break;
        case nav.indexOf('Linux') > -1:
            os = 'Linux';
        break;
    }        

    client.os = os;
    return client;
}

Returns: Object {browser: "Chrome", version: "50", os: "UNIX"}

Upvotes: 2

Chazmus
Chazmus

Reputation: 91

This page seems to have a pretty nice snippet which only uses the appString and appVersion property as a last resort as it claims them to be unreliable with certain browsers. The code on the page is as follows:

var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
var browserName  = navigator.appName;
var fullVersion  = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); 
var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10);
var nameOffset,verOffset,ix;

// In Opera 15+, the true version is after "OPR/" 
if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("OPR/"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Opera";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+4);
}
// In older Opera, the true version is after "Opera" or after "Version"
else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Opera"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Opera";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+6);
 if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Version"))!=-1) 
   fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In MSIE, the true version is after "MSIE" in userAgent
else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("MSIE"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Microsoft Internet Explorer";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+5);
}
// In Chrome, the true version is after "Chrome" 
else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Chrome"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Chrome";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7);
}
// In Safari, the true version is after "Safari" or after "Version" 
else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Safari"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Safari";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7);
 if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Version"))!=-1) 
   fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In Firefox, the true version is after "Firefox" 
else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Firefox"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Firefox";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In most other browsers, "name/version" is at the end of userAgent 
else if ( (nameOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ')+1) < 
          (verOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf('/')) ) 
{
 browserName = nAgt.substring(nameOffset,verOffset);
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+1);
 if (browserName.toLowerCase()==browserName.toUpperCase()) {
  browserName = navigator.appName;
 }
}
// trim the fullVersion string at semicolon/space if present
if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(";"))!=-1)
   fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix);
if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(" "))!=-1)
   fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix);

majorVersion = parseInt(''+fullVersion,10);
if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
 fullVersion  = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); 
 majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10);
}

document.write(''
 +'Browser name  = '+browserName+'<br>'
 +'Full version  = '+fullVersion+'<br>'
 +'Major version = '+majorVersion+'<br>'
 +'navigator.appName = '+navigator.appName+'<br>'
 +'navigator.userAgent = '+navigator.userAgent+'<br>'
)

Upvotes: 2

Michael Cole
Michael Cole

Reputation: 16257

The bowser JavaScript library offers this functionality. 

if (bowser.msie && bowser.version <= 6) {
  alert('Hello China');
}

It seems to be well maintained.

Upvotes: 30

Marco Allori
Marco Allori

Reputation: 3314

I wrote this for my needs.

It get info like if is a mobile device or if has a retina display

try it

var nav = {
        isMobile:function(){
            return (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone|iPad|iPod|Android|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i) != null);
        },
        isDesktop:function(){
            return (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone|iPad|iPod|Android|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i) == null);
        },
        isAndroid: function() {
            return navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i);
        },
        isBlackBerry: function() {
            return navigator.userAgent.match(/BlackBerry/i);
        },
        isIOS: function() {
            return navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone|iPad|iPod/i);
        },
        isOpera: function() {
            return navigator.userAgent.match(/Opera Mini/i);
        },
        isWindows: function() {
            return navigator.userAgent.match(/IEMobile/i);
        },
        isRetina:function(){
            return window.devicePixelRatio && window.devicePixelRatio > 1;
        },
        isIPad:function(){
            isIPad = (/ipad/gi).test(navigator.platform);
            return isIPad;
        },
        isLandscape:function(){
            if(window.innerHeight < window.innerWidth){
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        },
        getIOSVersion:function(){
            if(this.isIOS()){
                var OSVersion = navigator.appVersion.match(/OS (\d+_\d+)/i);
                OSVersion = OSVersion[1] ? +OSVersion[1].replace('_', '.') : 0;
                return OSVersion;
            }
            else
                return false;
        },
        isStandAlone:function(){
            if(_.is(navigator.standalone))
                return navigator.standalone;
            return false;
        },
        isChrome:function(){
            var isChrome = (/Chrome/gi).test(navigator.appVersion);
            var isSafari = (/Safari/gi).test(navigator.appVersion)
            return isChrome && isSafari;
        },
        isSafari:function(){
            var isSafari = (/Safari/gi).test(navigator.appVersion)
            var isChrome = (/Chrome/gi).test(navigator.appVersion)
            return !isChrome && isSafari;
        }
}

Upvotes: 0

Jez
Jez

Reputation: 30071

I wrote a version detector based on Hermann Ingjaldsson's answer, but more robust and which returns an object with name/version data in it. It covers the major browsers but I don't bother with the plethora of mobile ones and minor ones:

function getBrowserData(nav) {
    var data = {};

    var ua = data.uaString = nav.userAgent;
    var browserMatch = ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident(?=\/))\/?\s*([\d\.]+)/i) || [];
    if (browserMatch[1]) { browserMatch[1] = browserMatch[1].toLowerCase(); }
    var operaMatch = browserMatch[1] === 'chrome';
    if (operaMatch) { operaMatch = ua.match(/\bOPR\/([\d\.]+)/); }

    if (/trident/i.test(browserMatch[1])) {
        var msieMatch = /\brv[ :]+([\d\.]+)/g.exec(ua) || [];
        data.name = 'msie';
        data.version = msieMatch[1];
    }
    else if (operaMatch) {
        data.name = 'opera';
        data.version = operaMatch[1];
    }
    else if (browserMatch[1] === 'safari') {
        var safariVersionMatch = ua.match(/version\/([\d\.]+)/i);
        data.name = 'safari';
        data.version = safariVersionMatch[1];
    }
    else {
        data.name = browserMatch[1];
        data.version = browserMatch[2];
    }

    var versionParts = [];
    if (data.version) {
        var versionPartsMatch = data.version.match(/(\d+)/g) || [];
        for (var i=0; i < versionPartsMatch.length; i++) {
            versionParts.push(versionPartsMatch[i]);
        }
        if (versionParts.length > 0) { data.majorVersion = versionParts[0]; }
    }
    data.name = data.name || '(unknown browser name)';
    data.version = {
        full: data.version || '(unknown full browser version)',
        parts: versionParts,
        major: versionParts.length > 0 ? versionParts[0] : '(unknown major browser version)'
    };

    return data;
};

It can then be used like this:

var brData = getBrowserData(window.navigator || navigator);
console.log('name: ' + brData.name);
console.log('major version: ' + brData.version.major);
// etc.

Upvotes: 4

Michael Bleidistel
Michael Bleidistel

Reputation: 151

function BrowserCheck()
{
    var N= navigator.appName, ua= navigator.userAgent, tem;
    var M= ua.match(/(opera|chrome|safari|firefox|msie|trident)\/?\s*(\.?\d+(\.\d+)*)/i);
    if(M && (tem= ua.match(/version\/([\.\d]+)/i))!= null) {M[2]=tem[1];}
    M= M? [M[1], M[2]]: [N, navigator.appVersion,'-?'];
    return M;
}

This will return an array, first element is the browser name, second element is the complete version number in string format.

Upvotes: 15

newTag
newTag

Reputation: 2169

var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
var browserName  = navigator.appName;
var fullVersion  = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10);
var nameOffset,verOffset,ix;

// In Opera, the true version is after "Opera" or after "Version"

if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Opera"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Opera";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+6);
 if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Version"))!=-1)
   fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In MSIE, the true version is after "MSIE" in userAgent

else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("MSIE"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Microsoft Internet Explorer";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+5);
}
// In Chrome, the true version is after "Chrome"

else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Chrome"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Chrome";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7);
}
// In Safari, the true version is after "Safari" or after "Version"

else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Safari"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Safari";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7);
 if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Version"))!=-1)
   fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In Firefox, the true version is after "Firefox"

else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Firefox"))!=-1) {
 browserName = "Firefox";
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8);
}
// In most other browsers, "name/version" is at the end of userAgent

else if ( (nameOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ')+1) <
          (verOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf('/')) )
{
 browserName = nAgt.substring(nameOffset,verOffset);
 fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+1);
 if (browserName.toLowerCase()==browserName.toUpperCase()) {
  browserName = navigator.appName;
 }
}

// trim the fullVersion string at semicolon/space if present

if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(";"))!=-1)
   fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix);
if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(" "))!=-1)
   fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix);

majorVersion = parseInt(''+fullVersion,10);
if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
 fullVersion  = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
 majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10);
}

document.write(''
 +'Browser name  = '+browserName+'<br>'
 +'Full version  = '+fullVersion+'<br>'
 +'Major version = '+majorVersion+'<br>'
 +'navigator.appName = '+navigator.appName+'<br>'
 +'navigator.userAgent = '+navigator.userAgent+'<br>'
)

See the demo here..http://jsfiddle.net/hw4jM/3/

Upvotes: 3

Marek
Marek

Reputation: 1798

jQuery can handle this quite nice (jQuery.browser)

var ua = $.browser;
if ( ua.mozilla && ua.version.slice(0,3) == "1.9" ) {
    alert( "Do stuff for firefox 3" );
}

EDIT: As Joshua wrote in his comment below, jQuery.browser property is no longer supported in jQuery since version 1.9 (read jQuery 1.9 release notes for more details). jQuery development team recommends using more complete approach like adapting UI with Modernizr library.

Upvotes: 8

P&#229;l S&#248;lvberg
P&#229;l S&#248;lvberg

Reputation: 53

I have made a script in ASP code to detect browser, browser version, OS and OS version. The reason for me to do this in ASP was because i want to store the data in a log-database. So I had to detect the browser serverside.

Here is the code:

on error resume next
ua = lcase(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))
moz = instr(ua,"mozilla")  
ffx = instr(ua,"firefox")  
saf = instr(ua,"safari")
crm = instr(ua,"chrome") 
max = instr(ua,"maxthon") 
opr = instr(ua,"opera")
ie4 = instr(ua,"msie 4") 
ie5 = instr(ua,"msie 5") 
ie6 = instr(ua,"msie 6") 
ie7 = instr(ua,"msie 7") 
ie8 = instr(ua,"trident/4.0")
ie9 = instr(ua,"trident/5.0")

if moz>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Mozilla"
    BrVer = mid(ua,moz+8,(instr(moz,ua," ")-(moz+8)))
end if
if ffx>0 then 
    BrowserType = "FireFox"
    BrVer = mid(ua,ffx+8)
end if
if saf>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Safari"
    BrVerPlass = instr(ua,"version")
    BrVer = mid(ua,BrVerPlass+8,(instr(BrVerPlass,ua," ")-(BrVerPlass+8)))
end if
if crm>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Chrome"
    BrVer = mid(ua,crm+7,(instr(crm,ua," ")-(crm+7)))
end if
if max>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Maxthon"
    BrVer = mid(ua,max+8,(instr(max,ua," ")-(max+8)))
end if
if opr>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Opera"
    BrVerPlass = instr(ua,"presto")
    BrVer = mid(ua,BrVerPlass+7,(instr(BrVerPlass,ua," ")-(BrVerPlass+7)))
end if
if ie4>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "4"
end if
if ie5>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "5"
end if
if ie6>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "6"
end if
if ie7>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "7"
end if
if ie8>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "8"
    if ie7>0 then BrVer = BrVer & " (in IE7 compability mode)"
end if
if ie9>0 then 
    BrowserType = "Internet Explorer"
    BrVer = "9"
    if ie7>0 then BrVer = BrVer & " (in IE7 compability mode)"
    if ie8>0 then BrVer = BrVer & " (in IE8 compability mode)"
end if

OSSel = mid(ua,instr(ua,"(")+1,(instr(ua,";")-instr(ua,"("))-1)
OSver = mid(ua,instr(ua,";")+1,(instr(ua,")")-instr(ua,";"))-1)

if BrowserType = "Internet Explorer" then
    OSStart = instr(ua,";")
    OSStart = instr(OSStart+1,ua,";")        
    OSStopp = instr(OSStart+1,ua,";")
    OSsel = mid(ua,OSStart+2,(OSStopp-OSStart)-2)
end if

    Select case OSsel
        case "windows nt 6.1"
            OS = "Windows"
            OSver = "7"
        case "windows nt 6.0"
            OS = "Windows"
            OSver = "Vista"
        case "windows nt 5.2"
            OS = "Windows"
            OSver = "Srv 2003 / XP x64"
        case "windows nt 5.1"
            OS = "Windows"
            OSver = "XP"
        case else
            OS = OSSel
    End select

Response.write "<br>" & ua & "<br>" & BrowserType & "<br>" & BrVer & "<br>" & OS & "<br>" & OSver & "<br>"

'Use the variables here for whatever you need........

Upvotes: 2

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