How can you detect the version of a browser?

313
votes

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?

30
javascriptbrowserversionbrowser-detection
I recommend to setup on a proven library instead of small chunk code: * github.com/bestiejs/platform.js * github.com/ded/bowser both having > 1,000 stars – Simon Fakir
You can use UAParser JavaScript Library to detect browser and its version. I did it following this How to detect browser, engine, OS, CPU, and device using JavaScript? – Luzan Baral

30 Answers

536
votes

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

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`
213
votes

This is an improvement on Kennebec's answer.

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(/\bOPR|Edge\/(\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 = 'Chrome'
                           // browser.version = '40'

console.log(browser);

This way you can shield yourself from the obscurity of the code.

59
votes

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

57
votes

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.
}
30
votes

The bowser JavaScript library offers this functionality. 

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

It seems to be well maintained.

18
votes

Use this: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

alert(BrowserDetect.browser); // will say "Firefox"
alert(BrowserDetect.version); // will say "3" or "4"
16
votes

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;
}

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.

14
votes
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.

9
votes

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.

8
votes

In pure Javascript you can do a RegExp match on the navigator.userAgent to find the Firefox version:

var uMatch = navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\/(.*)$/),
    ffVersion;
if (uMatch && uMatch.length > 1) {
    ffVersion = uMatch[1];
}

ffVersion will be undefined if not a Firefox browser.

See working example →

5
votes

Look at navigator.userAgent - Firefox/xxx.xxx.xxx is specified right at the end.

5
votes

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);
4
votes
<script type="text/javascript">
var version = navigator.appVersion;
alert(version);
</script>
4
votes

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.
3
votes
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/

2
votes

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........
2
votes

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>'
)
2
votes

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"}

2
votes

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
2
votes

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`
2
votes

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

console.log(navigator.appVersion)
1
votes

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.

1
votes

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>
1
votes

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;
}
1
votes

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());
0
votes
var ua = navigator.userAgent;

if (/Firefox\//.test(ua))
   var Firefox = /Firefox\/([0-9\.A-z]+)/.exec(ua)[1];
0
votes

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;
        }
}
0
votes

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>
0
votes

For chromium browser is so simple.

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

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

0
votes

This got me the version of Firefox,

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