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It detects Web (Epiphany) as Chrome: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/ZB74XW4

Midori as Safari: http://whatsmybrowser.org/b/PMWKUJZ

Chromium as chrome: 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/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.



I would imagine anyone using an obscure browser doesn't need a website to tell them what they're using though.


I 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.


Why would anyone need a website to tell them what browser they are using?


Support. 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.


I would have asked the same thing before I started reading /r/talesfromtechsupport.




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