[removed] How to find out if the user browser is Chrome?

Question

I need some function returning a boolean value to check if the browser is Chrome.

How do I create such functionality?

Answer 1

even shorter: var is_chrome = /chrome/i.test( navigator.userAgent );

Answer 2

To know the names of different desktop browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, Edge, Chrome). Except Safari.

function getBrowserName() {
  var browserName = '';
  var userAgent = navigator.userAgent;
  (typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined') && (browserName = 'Firefox');
  ( /* @cc_on!@*/ false || !!document.documentMode) && (browserName = 'IE');
  (!!window.chrome && userAgent.match(/OPR/)) && (browserName = 'Opera');
  (!!window.chrome && userAgent.match(/Edge/)) && (browserName = 'Edge');
  (!!window.chrome && !userAgent.match(/(OPR|Edge)/)) && (browserName = 'Chrome');

  /**
   * Expected returns
   * Firefox, Opera, Edge, Chrome
   */
  return browserName;
}

Works in the following browser versions:

Opera - 58.0.3135.79
Firefox - 65.0.2 (64-bit)
IE - 11.413.15063 (JS Fiddle no longer supports IE just paste in Console)
Edge - 44.17763.1.0
Chrome - 72.0.3626.121 (Official Build) (64-bit)

View the gist here and the fiddle here

The original code snippet no longer worked for Chrome and I forgot where I found it. It had safari before but I no longer have access to safari so I cannot verify anymore.

Only the Firefox and IE codes were part of the original snippet.

The checking for Opera, Edge, and Chrome is straight forward. They have differences in the userAgent. OPR only exists in Opera. Edge only exists in Edge. So to check for Chrome these string shouldn't be there.

As for the Firefox and IE, I cannot explain what they do.

I'll be adding this functionality to a package i'm writing

Answer 3

Check this: How to detect Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera browser?

In your case:

var isChrome = (window.chrome.webstore || window.chrome.runtime) && !!window.chrome;

Answer 4

To check if browser is Google Chrome, try this:

// please note, 
// that IE11 now returns undefined again for window.chrome
// and new Opera 30 outputs true for window.chrome
// but needs to check if window.opr is not undefined
// and new IE Edge outputs to true now for window.chrome
// and if not iOS Chrome check
// so use the below updated condition
var isChromium = window.chrome;
var winNav = window.navigator;
var vendorName = winNav.vendor;
var isOpera = typeof window.opr !== "undefined";
var isIEedge = winNav.userAgent.indexOf("Edge") > -1;
var isIOSChrome = winNav.userAgent.match("CriOS");

if (isIOSChrome) {
   // is Google Chrome on IOS
} else if(
  isChromium !== null &&
  typeof isChromium !== "undefined" &&
  vendorName === "Google Inc." &&
  isOpera === false &&
  isIEedge === false
) {
   // is Google Chrome
} else { 
   // not Google Chrome 
}

Example of use: http://codepen.io/jonathan/pen/WpQELR

The reason this works is because if you use the Google Chrome inspector and go to the console tab. Type 'window' and press enter. Then you be able to view the DOM properties for the 'window object'. When you collapse the object you can view all the properties, including the 'chrome' property.

You can't use strictly equals true anymore to check in IE for window.chrome. IE used to return undefined, now it returns true. But guess what, IE11 now returns undefined again. IE11 also returns a empty string "" for window.navigator.vendor.

I hope this helps!

UPDATE:

Thank you to Halcyon991 for pointing out below, that the new Opera 18+ also outputs to true for window.chrome. Looks like Opera 18 is based on Chromium 31. So I added a check to make sure the window.navigator.vendor is: "Google Inc" and not is "Opera Software ASA". Also thanks to Ring and Adrien Be for the heads up about Chrome 33 not returning true anymore... window.chrome now checks if not null. But play close attention to IE11, I added the check back for undefined since IE11 now outputs undefined, like it did when first released.. then after some update builds it outputted to true .. now recent update build is outputting undefined again. Microsoft can't make up it's mind!

UPDATE 7/24/2015 - addition for Opera check

Opera 30 was just released. It no longer outputs window.opera. And also window.chrome outputs to true in the new Opera 30. So you must check if OPR is in the userAgent. I updated my condition above to account for this new change in Opera 30, since it uses same render engine as Google Chrome.

UPDATE 10/13/2015 - addition for IE check

Added check for IE Edge due to it outputting true for window.chrome .. even though IE11 outputs undefined for window.chrome. Thanks to artfulhacker for letting us know about this!

UPDATE 2/5/2016 - addition for iOS Chrome check

Added check for iOS Chrome check CriOS due to it outputting true for Chrome on iOS. Thanks to xinthose for letting us know about this!

UPDATE 4/18/2018 - change for Opera check

Edited check for Opera, checking window.opr is not undefined since now Chrome 66 has OPR in window.navigator.vendor. Thanks to Frosty Z and Daniel Wallman for reporting this!

Answer 5

To check if browser is Google Chrome:

var isChrome = navigator.userAgent.includes("Chrome") && navigator.vendor.includes("Google Inc");

console.log(navigator.vendor);
// "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36 "

console.log(navigator.userAgent); 
// "Google Inc."

Answer 6

You can use:

navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") != -1

It is working on v.71