Re: Chrome browser detection

Dave Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2009 at 10:59, Aengus wrote:
> 
>> According to Google's own documentation, the Useragent for Chrome
>> looks like: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
>> AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13.
>> 
>> http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/webmasters-faq.html#useragent
>> 
>> Analog recognizes this as Safari/525.
> 
> Thanks. My latest LOGFILE has:
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.33 Safari/530.5"
> which I see Analog shows as Safari/530. I have also some Safari/5.28
> and Safari 5.23 which appear to be plain Safari. Presumably because of
> Chrome's auto update most users will now be on /530.

If "real" Safari browsers are identified as 5.something, and Chrome browsers as 530, then 

BROWSUMALIAS Safari/530 Chrome/530

Will still list the Chrome Browsers as sub-types of Safari, but will list them as Chrome/530.

Aengus

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