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Andrew Poulos - 31 Oct 2006 01:01 GMT

Is there a way to test whether the browser is Firefox version less than
2.0 or 2.0+?

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Randy Webb - 31 Oct 2006 01:19 GMT

Andrew Poulos said the following on 10/30/2006 7:01 PM:

> Is there a way to test whether the browser is Firefox version less than
> 2.0 or 2.0+?

You feature detect and it doesn't matter. Same as with IE/Firefox/Opera.

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ASM - 31 Oct 2006 01:29 GMT

Andrew Poulos a écrit :

> Is there a way to test whether the browser is Firefox version less than
> 2.0 or 2.0+?

The right question is : what do you need (in FF 2) ?

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RobG - 31 Oct 2006 01:36 GMT

> Is there a way to test whether the browser is Firefox version less than
> 2.0 or 2.0+?

I take a positive view that that you are using this for your own
interest and not for inferring feature support based on browser
sniffing:

alert( navigator.userAgent );

My Firefox 2 looks like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

*It is unreliable*. However, since few sites use sniffing any more
(though unfortunately some major sites still do) there is less
incentive to fake the UA string.

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Andrew Poulos - 31 Oct 2006 03:30 GMT

>> Is there a way to test whether the browser is Firefox version less than
>> 2.0 or 2.0+?
>
> I take a positive view that that you are using this for your own
> interest and not for inferring feature support based on browser
> sniffing:

Thanks

> alert( navigator.userAgent );
>
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> (though unfortunately some major sites still do) there is less
> incentive to fake the UA string.

I agree with you that using navigator.userAgent is unreliable (I haven't
actually tested the reliability, it just looks suspect).

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