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Show HN: What's my browser?
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoIt's a very basic service, but the UI is more hip, I guess. It doesn't detect LightSpark as a Flash version.
- _RPM 13y agoIt's bootstrap
- dalek2point3 13y agowhat the fuck? the help page says "Google Chrome is generally considered the leader in supporting modern web standards, and can reliably handle most modern websites. It is also one of the fastest and most secure. "
- greenyoda 13y agoSee also: http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com
- eurleif 13y agoWhy? It's not as good.
- asdfologist 13y agoMy eyes are bleeding.
- doesnt_know 13y agoThis is a perfect example of the importance of putting even a marginal amount of effort into ux.
- aw3c2 13y agoThat does not look like a site meant to be used, it looks like a site to be listed on Google.
- lelandbatey 13y agoFor my browser diagnostic needs, I prefer http://ifconfig.me/ http://ifconfig.me/ Memorable url, shows ip address, shows user agent, and much more. As an added bonus, if you: curl ifconfig.me It responds with just your external ip address.
- scott_karana 13y agoI use the identical http://icanhazip.com http://icanhazip.com
- Numberwang 13y agoAs someone who uses these services in my job, I like the design a lot. A simple url and a simple copy button is great for these things (anyone who has done support will know what I'm talking about). However, I get more information from whatsmybrowser.com If someone could do a site that gives as much info as possible, including an Internet speed tests, I think it could become very popular.
- oniTony 13y agoRight now. > Share this now with your support team now!
- Joeri 13y agoReports my IE11 in modern mode as IE7. I'm guessing it's because of the "trident" and "7.0" in the user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko I've noticed a ton of sites that misdetect IE in this way. MS's attempt to 'improve' their UA string seems to have done more harm than good.
- gebe 13y agoFor me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.
- muxxa 13y agoHere's what we use at StatCounter when compiling Global Stats data: http://gs.statcounter.com/detect http://gs.statcounter.com/detect Can you check if that detects your IE11 correctly?
- Joeri 13y agoYes, statcounter does detect it correctly.
- MarkTee 13y agoIt says that my screen size is 1280 x 720, but it's actually 1920 x 1080.
- vmarsy 13y agoSame problem here, it says 1547 x 870 whereas my real screen size is 3200 x 1800.
- justincormack 13y agoHow does it know my Java and Flash versions when I have click to play set?
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agoswfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion();
- Someone 13y agoProbably from JavaScript. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPlugins.plugins https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPl... and, from there, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Plugin https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Plugin. Your browser cannot hide extensions from that list because web sites might use it to decide whether to show you their plugin-based content.
- JelteF 13y agoOn Linux(Gentoo) it reports the resolution of my secondary monitor. Instead of the one my browser is actually on.
- Theodores 13y agoIP address and GeoIP is pretty handy from a support perspective, plus anything such as ISP that can be inferred from IP address. The whatismybrowser.com has IP address but not the GeoIP. More generally an embeddable 'contact us' form for people to use might be useful if it solves problems of having to setup captcha, email and so on that is hard to do correctly. On the back of the contact us form there could be all the useful support gubbins so that whomever is in support dealing with the 'complaint' sent on on the contact us does not have to ask the customer to go to some third party site to find out the browser/IP/screen size and so on.
- elsamuko 13y agoLooks nice, but please sanitize your input: http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/b/STOW3UD http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/b/STOW3UD Also the site completely breaks if I add rare unicodes at the end of the user agent: 🐧
- VincDep 13y agoAnd the nice XSS! http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/GXVP9QT http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/GXVP9QT
- knassy 13y agoI'm interested in what's happening here. Can you provide a link/more info on what the XSS issue is? (I honestly don't know and would love to learn about this. Thanks)
- keeperofdakeys 13y agoFrom what I can see, the issue is fixed now. But simply, someone put html in their useragent, the site copied it as text, and included it as text in the html. The browser then interpreted it as html, and executed the javascript. The fix is to parse inputs, and replace < and > with html entities. You can see this fix if you read the source for the page.
- dav- 13y agoPost on Hacker News, expect to get "hacked".
- pbhjpbhj 13y agohttp://oi60.tinypic.com/ngu97k.jpg http://oi60.tinypic.com/ngu97k.jpg you're not wrong. [http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/4DNMRK6 http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/4DNMRK6]
- doktrin 13y agoThis appears to be fixed, but I did like the alert text in your stored XSS. Probably the first XKCD comic I ever read.
- xpda 13y agoWhen I tried Opera, it returned Chrome 31.
- aroch 13y agoSame browser engine and useragents
- exterm 13y agoNo, the Opera user agent contains an additional OPR/XX where XX is the Opera version.
- richtr 13y agoSorting out user agents is one of those 'hard problems' but I thought that was the _whole point_ of this site. This is an incredibly basic mistake.
- richtr 13y agoUpdate: this has now been fixed.
- kalleboo 13y agoThe PS Vita browser gets detected as Safari, and the URL it gives me is invalid http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/b/GFWPFC0 http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/b/GFWPFC0
- sliverstorm 13y agoThis reminds me, have any of you guys run into the "dark side" of frequent browser updates? Couple months ago I file a support ticket on a website, they come back and say "I see you are using Chrome 33 and Firefox 24, we only support Chrome 27 and Firefox 19, please install those versions". (Those were not the precise versions, but you get the idea)
- tarikozket 13y agoIf you can add, Websocket and SSL tests would be awesome and are what we need. Great design!
- Nanzikambe 13y agoI realise this is to assist with support, but why would anyone other than the owner of this site use it when they could just pull the user agent from their own logs when/if there's a need? Every webapp I've ever written logs user agent in the audit trail because that's often useful both in support and detecting unwanted stuff. I'd have to assume that's a fairly common practise. Barring an obvious use case I'm missing, it feels like a poorly written version of www.mybrowserinfo.com dressed up the theme de jour, minus the detail.
- thucydides 13y agoWhen I'm talking to my clients, it's so much easier to tell them to use to a site like this. Them: "When I click the button, the menu shows up. But it disappears as soon as I hover over it. Me: "What browser do you have?" Them: "Google, I think." Me: "Let's make sure. Could you go to whatbrowser.org and tell me what it says?" Much simpler than having to fish through logs.
- Nanzikambe 13y agoThem: "When I click the button, the menu shows up. But it disappears as soon as I hover over it" Me: What's your username? Them: jdoe@somehost.com $ mysql -e "SELECT useragent FROM login_audit WHERE user = 'jdoe@somehost.com'" +---------------------------------------------------+ | useragent | +---------------------------------------------------+ | Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 3.1) | +---------------------------------------------------+ Me: thumping noises on wood Them: Yes? $ mysql -e "DELETE FROM users WHERE user = 'jdoe@somehost.com'" Me: Problem resolved, goodbye. (Admittedly this is probably why they don't let me do support, but the point remains, it's trivial and you should have this info.)
- michaelmior 13y agoWhat about someone who can't log in using a browser which is not their usual?
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- aaronbasssett 13y agoI prefer http://supportdetails.com/ http://supportdetails.com/ makes it easy for the customer to email me their details.
- cridenour 13y agoOn a retina screen, it reports the wrong resolution. Not sure if you can get density from the browser, but just thought I would let you know!
- brianpgordon 13y agoI noticed this as well. OP can detect it using window.devicePixelRatio on WebKit: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/06/devicepixelrati.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/06/devicepixelr...
- brokenparser 13y agoIt detects Web (Epiphany) as Chrome: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/ZB74XW4 http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/ZB74XW4 Midori as Safari: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/PMWKUJZ http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/PMWKUJZ Chromium as chrome: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/21ULSXJ http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/21ULSXJ And you might want to be more specific on Dooble and Konqueror: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/W3CJIKO http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/W3CJIKO http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/IHEV8VN http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/IHEV8VN Konqueror has been at major version 4 for the past 7 years or so. Also, these operating systems are called "FreeBSD" and "Linux". "amd64" or "x86_64" is the arch they're running on here.
- krebby 13y agoI would imagine anyone using an obscure browser doesn't need a website to tell them what they're using though.
- doktrin 13y agoI thought the purpose of the app was to demonstrate an intelligent parsing of the browser signature. After all, the user agent only tells part of the story.
- Houshalter 13y agoWhy would anyone need a website to tell them what browser they are using?
- Cederfjard 13y agoI would have asked the same thing before I started reading /r/talesfromtechsupport.
- varkson 13y agoSupport. I work Support and Maintenance in an web agency and if I a client client calls up with an issue that I can't reproduce, the first question is what browser they use. There are a lot of inconsistencies between browsers and knowing it gives me one less thing to test with when I'm working on the issue.
- gorhill 13y agoI have cookies disabled and yet it says "Cookies enabled: Yes". I did verify there was no "Cookie" header sent. What's with that?
- leobelle 13y agoAlso: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499435 https://aboutmybrowser.com/ https://aboutmybrowser.com/ http://www.browser-details.com/ http://www.browser-details.com/
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- exodust 13y ago"Color depth: 24 bit" Ah, now there's your problem! Seriously, no support person is ever going to need this information.
- mschuster91 13y agoOh indeed. Manage to kill off your graphics driver and be unlucky enough that Windows reverts to VESA. Or, alternately, have some stupid game change to other color depths (I'm looking at you UT), switch via Alt-Tab and kaboom.
- buro9 13y agoYou're asking the user to cut and paste a URL... it's still too hard. The one we use, when we need to, is this: http://supportdetails.com/ http://supportdetails.com/ All they have to do is put a recipient email address in the top, and hit "send details", and we receive an email letting us know what they're using. You can even pre-populate the form: http://supportdetails.com/?recipient=your@email.com http://supportdetails.com/?recipient=your@email.com http://supportdetails.com/?sender_name=Jessica&sender=email@sender.com&recipient=email@recipient.com http://supportdetails.com/?sender_name=Jessica&sender=email@... Making it a single click function. Although I agree with other comments in this thread, that this is something your app should log, there are scenarios in which this type of tool is really useful. Namely: Registration/Sign-in errors, in which it's going to be extremely difficult to identify from log files which tuple relates to the user having issues.
- grexi 13y agoYou're right - every user action / step is hard for support. We tackled this problem with Usersnap (https://usersnap.com https://usersnap.com ) - devs will get accurate information (Browser + OS version and a screenshot) directly with the bug report!
- pgt 13y agoHave you considered generating a unique URL for the requester (technical support) to share with the client, maybe with their name ini t? Once they visit it, pull their details, store it, and email it to the requester, or add it in their account.
- buro9 13y agoIt's not my site. But it's very useful. And we use Streak, so when we get such an email it is automatically assigned to the bug and the CRM for that user... for free... using Streak filters.
- SimeVidas 13y agoThat site is not responsive :-| (whatsmybrowser.org is)
- reidrac 13y ago"Browser size" made me chuckle. I would say "Browser window size" instead :)
- tsahyt 13y agoI'm running dwb, version 2013.08.03 (either the maintainer for Fedora is slightly lazy or there hasn't been a new version in a while) on Fedora 20. It reports Safari 538 and OSX as the operating system. I've also got cookies disabled and it reports that I have them enabled, which is strange.
- asjo 13y agoThe website doesn't work with my trusty Mosaic 2.7b5.
- untitaker_ 13y agoThis shows "Mobile Firefox Mobile", which is correct but obviously badly phrased.