Detecting Google Chrome Using JavaScript

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1. Janko

   Thanks for sharing this. I hope there won’t be any Chrome-specific fixing :)

• omer

  hi ,
  but i must say there is if you need to detect the file type and special characters in a file name while uploading the file you would need to detect FF IE6 IE8 and CHROME SPECIFICALLY as when you try to get the value of the file type field in javascript they would return diff results for all these browsers FF returns filename only and IE6 & CHROME returns FILE PATH

• krukid

  there’s also the issue with fading out a textarea (or div) with a visible scrollbar – chrome fills it with rainbow colors

2. freeze_soul

   Thank you! Very clever!!!

3. deef

   Chrome crashed a couple of times of by now.

   Keeping FireFox for now, Chrome does have some nice fresh ideas like e.g. the way it separates various threads.

   Thank you for the js-tip!

4. Martin

   It’s a nice idea. The only problem is that Google Chrome have exactly the same userAgent string as Apple’s Safari (at least on the Windows platform). I was trying to find out if there is anyway to tell the difference between them by searching the web and that’s how I ended up on your nice blog.

5. Lewis Walsh

   As it’s still beta there may be one or two bugs, none that I have found so far, but I can’t imagine Google signing off on a product that didn’t fully adhere to standards. So maybe it will be the fixes we’ve had to implement for other browsers that cause issues in Chrome.

   Since Chrome was built to handle the next generation of web applications I can see us developers needing code to detect chrome in order to allow more functionality to be shown that legacy browsers maybe cannot handle and which is turned off or hidden by default.

   Anyway, thanks for the code snippet, though hopefully I’ll never need it.

6. Htoo Tay Zar

   Thanks a lot for sharing..! But i still have no idea what should we fix in Chrome =D

7. Lewis Walsh

   Chrome appears to pass Acid2, but does not pass Acid3 (linktest failed, and only 79 scored for me on Vista Home Premium). So there may be some issues, particularly when using JS libraries.

8. film fan

   i keep learning about more and more advantages and features with Chrome, with privacy, for example; now if only they would take care of it’s cookie management glitches…

9. Henrik Gemal

   http://browserspy.dk/googlechrome.php will also show you the version and some additional information about Google Chrome.

10. chrismarx

    I’m having trouble with a custom cursor (.cur file). chrome doesn’t appear to be respecting the correct hotspot set on the cursor. ff/ie have no problem.

11. david

    @chrismarx: Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that issue.

12. chrismarx

    looks like they might be on to the problem, check it out:

    r2406 Fix an issue with tooltips showing up in the wrong location.

    http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes

13. sling

    CSS margin tag doesn’t work with a percentage value in chrome.
    eg.
    .class{margin:10% 15%} doesn’t work

14. chris glasier

    Chrome doesn’t always handle events that IE and Firefox consistently do. For example:

    HTML

    Javascript

    function menu2Down(e){
    findTarget(e)
    …. }

    function findTarget(e){

    var targ;

    if (!e) {var e = window.event }

    if (e.target){ targ = e.target; }

    else if (e.srcElement){ targ = e.srcElement; }

    Perhaps you could check it out with a simple example

15. Rochak Chauhan

    You can also use this JavaScript library to detect any browser including chrome. Not only this, you can trim a string, detect mouse positions etc

    http://rochakchauhan.com/blog/2008/10/11/rochakjs-javascript-class-of-common-functions/

16. Jim Paget

    Thanks for that! It’s been a great help! I’VE FOUND ANOTHER GOOGLE CHROME BUG:
    (sorry, didn’t mean to shout, was just to grab your attention!) lol.
    Overall I love Google Chrome, but one thing has just come up that I thought would be useful to point out: Google Chrome doesn’t respond to XML in the same way (as I’ve just found out!) Both IExplorer and Firefox use different methods to acheive this, and usually Google Chrome is easy to deal with because from a javascript point of vew, has behaved as though it was a clone of Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox! HOWEVER…
    BEWARE THE DANGERS OF CODING THEM THE SAME, as your browser will just assume you’re using Firefox, and anything that Google Chrome does not do, will go by undetected. No Warnings, No Nothing! (Which is fine just so long as the code it’s skipping wasn’t majorly important) but generally speaking, if you’ve gone to all the trouble to code it in XML, then there’s a likelyhood that the code it has skipped is VERY IMPORTANT INDEED, and thus losing it could be disasterous! However, thankfully this handy Google Chrome detection will help me to further seperate the code being used, and I can get to work on figuring out how the google has messed with the XML part! …Wish me luck!!

17. RandomWebDeveloper

    Just downloaded chrome its blazing fast almost as fast as FireFox Beta 3 “hacked”.

    Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that When it comes to Frames or basically anthing that you resize with Javascript, that Chromes height variable is typically off by about 25px, however this just might be because of programing a resizing frame for all 3 browers. Because I checked the variables with Chromes nifty Inspector tool and the clientHeight variable is exact. So im guess it’s just another incompatability of IE to any other browser again. Altho IE still does nice color shading and easy margins lmao. =D.

18. James Umokoro

    Chrome is very nice.. but it would be nicer if it could show error messages like that that of the Windows Internet Explorer. Or may be should have a debugger. Guys don’t you think it will make good sense? Love the work these guys have done.

19. Sameer

    Browser detection is fine how to change the input type using js in chrome.

20. BatikAndHandicrafts.com

    Chrome is nice, but still rather unstable I think

21. Mis_P

    @Martin: did you find a way to differentiate user agent for safari and chrome..because I am trying to extract the “chrome” from the user agents long string but still it does not work.

22. Google Wave Forum

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23. Rhoel

    @Htoo Tay Zar:

    i have discovered the interpretation of the Khmer (Cambodian) Unicode font is tiny in Chrome when compared to FF and IE. So maybe a need to script around to make the font size readable.

    Not a big issue.

    Do like Chrome though – can’t wait to see the roll out on Chrome OS

    Rhoel
    Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

24. Sumeet Chawla

    Thanks again david :) I didn’t know it was so easy to detect a browser via javascript…

25. LaQuisha Redfern

    OMG – you just saved my coding life – thank you!

26. Gavin

    @mis_p i know u posted an age ago…. but, if you check for chrome before you check for safari then the you chrome will come up,

    I had the same issue myself, :) hope it helps anyone who sees this thread

27. Zachry Baker

    Look forward to the day that font-face works decently in Chrome. Getting close but flakes out in the first dozen fonts I tried. Gave up. Shame b/c all the other browsers could render the fonts.

28. Jason

    Why does Chrome’s User Agent string have Mozilla’s name on it?

29. Greg

    Sorry to burst your bubble:
    
if(window.chrome) { alert("You are using chrome"); }
else { alert("You are not using chrome"); }


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30. Pawan Bhise

    Hi!.
    I am using a object tag to show a webpage inside another page.
    in object tag i show some images,when we click on image a pop div is created and it is appended to the parent page body by using
    javascript parent.docuemnt.body function.but the pop up is only working in IE and Mozilla.I wan it should run in chrome & safari..
    Plz suggest any help………….

31. Quang Le

    Great tip to detect Chrome. Thanks for sharing.

32. Photo Booth

    This is what I did:

    var chrome = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1;
alert(chrome);

    It will return “true” if you’re using chrome browser. Thanks for sharing this wonderful script!