Netscape is the ‘navigator.appName’ for Google Chrome

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Just think what Google Chrome would return when we run browser detection code written in JavaScript ? as we all know Navigator object contains information about the visitor’s, I mean the user’s browser name, browser version and more.

If you would like to know the answer, here it is – Just run the below JavaScript code in the new Google Chrome browser, you will know the answer:

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var browserName=navigator.appName;
if (browserName=="Netscape")
{
 alert("Hi Netscape User!");
}
else
{
 if (browserName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
 {
  alert("Hi, Explorer User!");
 }
 else
  {
    alert("Check out the browser which you are using, or upgrade your browser with the new one?");
   }
}

So, Guys! what answer you got, Yes! the navigator.appName returns "Netscape ". As we all know "appName " of navigator holds the name of the browser. Similarly we have so many properties of navigator object like for example: navigator.appVersion, here "appVersion " holds the version of the browser.

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7 Responses

my thoughts on google chrome
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avtorentacar
09.13.08

Nice investigation on this, cool

I think it will be proved that google chrome is netscape browser

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Jan Eyking
09.13.08

Google Chrome is Netscape and Netscape is Mozilla Firefox, so Google Chrome is just another Firefox? What am I missing over here? And it seems that Safari delivers the same appName. What is this?

fcr
09.13.08

The reason behind that, is that google chrome uses webkit, the same render as safari, which in fact is a fork of khtml, the render of konqueror. Most of the webkit based browsers show appName=’Netscape’ for compatibility reasons with the silly scripts that check that variable.

chromebook information
09.13.08

Thanks, been wondering about this, Google has some good tricks up their sleeves.

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