Ticket #5878 (closed bug: invalid)
Chrome on Mac reports as Safari
| Reported by: | oliverlangan | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 1.4.1 |
| Component: | core | Version: | 1.4 |
| Keywords: | chrome detection | Cc: | |
| Blocking: | Blocked by: |
Description
On Chrome/Mac, jQuery.browser.safari returns "true"
Chrome does in fact identify itself as Safari (as well as Chrome): Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.49 Safari/532.5
Change History
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by addyosmani
- Keywords chrome detection added
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to invalid
Bare in mind that we generally recommend using jQuery.support() for feature detection as opposed to userAgent sniffing using $.browser.
In addition to Dave's original comments, $.browser was deprecated for Safari as per http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/ and it is suggested you can use navigator.userAgent to check this instead if you have to (effectively the same).
Just for the sake of completeness, I've taken another look at what Chrome is outputting, and checking the userAgent string using $.browser is probably not the most reliable way of establishing whether a browser is Chrome or not.
If you absolutely *have* to, see edeiller's comment for a Chrome detection function in the comments thread here:
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/
I'm closing this as $.browser sniffing is not something currently being recommended anymore (as far as I know).
Please follow the bug reporting guidlines and use jsFiddle when providing test cases and demonstrations instead of pasting the code in the ticket.
...which is why nobody should depend on jQuery.browser!
If it says it's Safari, then who are we to argue?