Resources > Your Browser
This gives information about your browser, mainly determined using JavaScript:
The Browser
In principle a browser’s identity may be guessed by scanning four properties; but in practice the first suffices:
Note : a browser detector/sniffer may err for some browsers because their userAgent strings can be made to mimic those of other browsers. A sniffer may also wrongly identify some browsers because the sniffer is too simple: e.g., some Opera userAgent strings contain both ‘MSIE’ and ‘Opera’, so a sniffer will fail if it assumes that ‘MSIE’ always indicates Internet Explorer. For more about browser sniffing, see Resources > Browser Sniffing.
Note : for a list of userAgent strings, see Psychedelix or Zytrax.
The Browser Options
Your browser has these options / properties:
PC Details
The following information about your PC may be deduced:
Note : some browsers reveal a few more details, but without broad browser support there is no point in listing them.
The Plugins
Your browser has these plugins:
Note : JavaScript cannot be used to detect plugins with IE because Microsoft could not be bothered with complying with standards.)