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How do i detect what browser does the client using?

i saw there is a $.browser in Jquery API Documention but its not longer works in jQuery 1.9.1.

any suggestions?

Boaz Hoch
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  • *Why* do you want to know the browser ? Did you look at why they removed it ? What do you want more than `navigator.userAgent` ? – Denys Séguret Apr 09 '13 at 11:45
  • possible duplicate of [What's the replacement for $.browser](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9645803/whats-the-replacement-for-browser) – Quentin Apr 09 '13 at 11:47

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I will suggest you to use feature detection instead of browser detection. Here is some detail about feature detection:

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/

But for answer to your question, you can use this code to detect browser:

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function() {
    if (!navigator.userAgent.match(/mozilla/i) && 
        ! navigator.userAgent.match(/webkit/i) ){
        alert('Mozilla');
    }
 });
</script>
Sanjeev Rai
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You can use the jQuery Migrate plugin and call the $.browser. It will work!

Using the plugin is easy; just include it immediately after the script tag for jQuery, for example.

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.1.1.js"></script>

JS:

$.each($.browser, function(i, val) {
  $("<div>" + i + " : <span>" + val + "</span>")
  .appendTo( document.body );
});

DEMO HERE (See Migrate 1.1.0 check box is checked on left side)

palaѕн
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$.browser has been removed in 1.9 as it's was suggested feature detection was preferred via $.support

Check http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/

Jaydeep Rajput
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See this http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#jquery-browser-removed

Use jQuery Migrate plugin as William suggested

Dhaval Marthak
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