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Web dev: What browser is visiting the page?

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A screenshot of a browser. The URL bar reads firefox://settings, a button on the URL bar is labelled Netscape, a popup from the button reads: “You’re viewing a secure Opera page”, and the web page title reads “Chrome settings”.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    2 months ago

    That’s exactly what you’re supposed to do with the modern web, via feature detection and client hints.

    The user agent in Chrome (and I think Firefox too) is “frozen” now, meaning it no longer receives any major updates.