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Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age?
- jazzychad 14y agook, neat... but what does the "age of my browser" mean?
- stinos 14y agothis. plus, mine is 0 days old (Opera 12.02, released more than a month ago I think) . How come?
- thronemonkey 14y agoSame here. On Opera, 0 days. weird.
- jarek 14y agoLooks like browser versions newer than newest version they have in the data files get 0 days. https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-msie.json https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-ms... doesn't have IE10 mentioned in the other post, https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-opera.json https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-op... doesn't have Opera 12.02.
- freehunter 14y agoIE10 using the Windows 8 modern interface is 0 days old. I wonder if they consider IE 10 to be released next month. I've had it installed for weeks.
- rwitoff 14y agoIt approximates how long it's been since your browser was released and aggregates other stats based on referrer. I'm asserting that site's being visited by newer browsers are gathering a more tech savvy crowd.
- dewey 14y agohttps://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge "How long has it been since your browser was released?"
- andreasvc 14y agoUnfortunately I get a traceback. Chromium, Ubuntu 12.04. EDIT: fixed now, 185 days old.
- duck 14y agoMy browser is TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable old.
- tvdw 14y agoFirefox Aurora "17.0a2 (2012-09-30)". Updated roughly 10 minutes ago, yet it says 25 days.
- corin_ 14y agoFirefox Nightly "18.0a1 (2012-09-30)", also 25 days old. Seems, I think, that it's seeing Firefox and getting the latest stable release, which was 15.0.1 released on September 6th (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/15.0.1/releasenotes/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/15.0.1/releasenotes/)
- rwitoff 14y agoYep, it's not very smart yet. There's a small json dict of firefox releases that it's referencing (https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-firefox.json https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-fi...). I haven't updated past the stable releases so it's defaulting to the last known release date. Feel free to clone on github :)
- corin_ 14y agoHmm, might be tough - I'm not sure quite how Nightly releases work, but I updated an hour ago and the version changed from 18.0a1 (old date, a few days ago I think) to 18.0a1 (2012-09-30). Meanwhile I check my useragent and I'm just seeing Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 Will submit a pull request if I get round to looking further and find a decent answer! edit: Not sure there's going to be any good solution. 18.0 Nightly was first out on August 28th, which is 33 days ago, so despite the fact that I last updated today, and that the whole concept of "Nightly" is to have an update every day, the release number is technically older than the 25 days since the most recent stable release came out. And when, in 10 days, 18.0 moves to Aurora and Nightly moves to 19.0, the user agent most likely won't be different between Aurora users then and Nightly users now.
- mparlane 14y agoSo nice of you to share [some of] your source code. http://pastie.org/4887851 http://pastie.org/4887851 Turn off debug, kids.
- msujaws 14y agoUm... it looks like it's open source :) https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge
- mparlane 14y agoThe front end server pages are not.
- corin_ 14y agoIf you want to see [all of] the source code you should click the link at the bottom of the page to be taken to https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge
- mparlane 14y agoThe front end server pages are not open sourced.
- rwitoff 14y agoThanks @mparlane, turned off prime debugging but was still routing all requests through a WebError handler prior to hitting root. You can otherwise find the rest of the code here: https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge :)
- styts 14y agoWorking fine here: "Your Browser's Age: 6 days old" for Google Chrome 22.0.1229.79.
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- artursapek 14y ago6 days for me on Chrome 22. Nice. I wasn't even aware. Funny how much lower news.ycombinator.org's average is over .com's. (I'm seeing 19 vs. 61 days, respectively)
- kelnos 14y agoHeh, I'm on Chrome 23, and it also says 6 days old. Seems not quite accurate, esp since I built it 13 days ago. Looks like age data for Chrome only goes to version 21: https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-chrome.json https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-ch... Haven't read the source to see why lack of a release date gives me 6 days...
- jey 14y agoThe OS field seems to be lying. It conveniently adds up to 100% but only has entries for windows, osx, and ios. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm sure there's a lot of other Linux users here too.
- tankenmate 14y agoI pulled up the stats on ihackernews; 86% safari, 6% chrome, 2% for the other big three, but OS says 68% ios, 25% android eh? Safari isn't available on Android, neither is MSIE (2%). The OS field obviously has issues, even beyond not being able to tell the difference between Android and some other Linux machine; even though telling the difference isn't that hard. UPDATE: I just checked from my Galaxy Nexus and it thinks that I am running Safari, it also claims my browser is 1210 days old, even though Android 4.1 obviously much younger than that; Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.1.1; en-gb; Galaxy Nexus Build/JRO03C) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30
- ifix 14y agoYes, it's a scam. I can refresh my Linux Firefox till the cows come home, it doesn't rate a mention.
- dbattaglia 14y agoMy browser is "unknown days old". On my iPhone / Safari / iOS 5.
- dbattaglia 14y agoMy browser is "unknown days old". On my iPhone / Safari / iOS 5.
- SCdF 14y ago0 days old? What does this mean anyway?
- zanny 14y ago80% of HN is using Chrome? That is unexpected. I'd figure if Firefox would be popular anywhere, it would be here where I would imagine most people run the aurora builds (at least, I do). The number has been mentioned to be wrong, and it is. I have Aurora 17.0a2 on Ubuntu 64 bit, which is 9 days old. The OS numbers also seem off, saying 54% of HN is browsing from OSX but 0% from any Linux? The facebook numbers seem strange. 45% are using Safari but 75% are using Windows. I really don't think 20% of those page views are from Windows users running Safari.
- creativityhurts 14y agoLet's face it, Firefox has been pretty popular among developers because of Firebug but given the rapid development of the Chrome Developer Tools there should be no wonder that's not the case anymore.
- w1ntermute 14y agoJust because you use a browser for webdev doesn't mean you use it for browsing. In fact, I like the idea of separating the two.
- creativityhurts 14y agoMost of the devs I know use one browser for everything and IE for testing. I take it you use FF for dev because of Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar and Chrome for browsing and personal stuff?
- w1ntermute 14y agoNo, the opposite.
- creativityhurts 14y agoOut of curiosity, why's that? Why do you need a browser for dev and a different one for actually browsing the web?
- nilsbunger 14y agoWhere did this site get the data from? EDIT: Especially, how did he get Facebook's or Google's stats?
- Jyaif 14y agoThose are the referrers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
- andywhite37 14y agoI tried on Chrome and got 6 days old. I then tried it on IE9 just out of curiosity, and got 579 days old. Also, the site doesn't seem to render or work correctly on IE9. The initial table appears at the very left-hand side of the screen, and the [+] button doesn't seem to do anything. (Works fine on Chrome though).
- tmchow 14y agoMy first question was "what does browser age mean?". I think you should just put the explanation on the page itself.
- michaelt 14y agoRight now for me the referrer averages for facebook.com say 43% safari - but only 24% OS X? Sounds improbable.
- niggler 14y agoiphone? safari runs on iphone ...
- prophetjohn 14y agoiOS?
- jcfrei 14y ago22:50 CET, OP restarts the server... now the numbers are all over the place and ycombinator.com averages on 128d? Btw. i got 6 days on chrome 22
- dsr_ 14y agoClaims 25 days, but I'm running Mozilla Nightly and restarted within the last 24 hours.
- azakai 14y agoMe too. I assume it counts the major version number - which was indeed last updated a month ago - as opposed to 'minor' updates.
- hollerith 14y agoNo, it's not doing that because I'm on Firefox Extended Support Release (which is currently at major version 10) and it says my browser is 33 days old.
- mmariani 14y agoI got 438 days on my iPad 3 running Safari. Interesting bit is that I've bought this one about six weeks ago.
- untog 14y agoNot too surprising. Your iPad will have an OS image from [insert time here] ago that doesn't have a relation to when you bought it.
- derleth 14y agoI got 25 days old for a beta of Firefox, which is either a lot older or a lot younger than that, depending on how you want to count. (My profile is easily an order of magnitude older, my browser binary is substantially younger.)
- recursive 14y ago0 days for Opera! woo!
- lordlarm 14y agoOpera 12.02: Reports 0 days old, while it really is 28 days old.
- lsh 14y agoOpera 12.01 does the same.
- domdelimar 14y agoI just updated iceweasel/aurora (version string conveniently showing it's age is just below 3 days: 17.0~a2+20120928042009-1) and this tells me it's 25 days old. I'm also on Linux (obviously) and it really seems strange Linux isn't even registering at all. This is my UA string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 Iceweasel/17.0a2
- omaranto 14y agoApparently Chrome on Android 4.1 is 1211 days old...
- klausjensen 14y ago580 days on my corporate default browser (IE9) - 2192 days if I switch to "compatibility view" - and I am unable to expand the stats on either. On Chrome, 7 days ago. Yay.