Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by prateekdayal on Monday September 10, 2012 @08:47AM (#4499450)

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback.

The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc).

Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

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Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by rplnt on Monday September 10, 2012 @08:58AM (#4499495)

If you access a direct link (to someone's browser info) the page should make it clear that it's not your browser you are visiting. Now it says "share your browser info" even if you opened some other url.

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Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by ashastry on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:01AM (#4499511)

Thanks for the feedback. We will fix this..

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Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by bmj1 on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:00AM (#4499507)

Nice idea - this could be achieved by dropping a cookie.

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Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by ashitvora on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:04AM (#4499527)

I guess what he is trying to do is, ask user's OS, Browser, whether Flash or any other plugin is installed or not when you are talking to customer for support. Not to gather stats.

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Re:Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you usi... by deno on Monday September 10, 2012 @10:41AM (#4500021)

You might consider using (or consulting) Closure Library for UA sniffing. It’s pretty decent and Google actively maintains it.

demo: https://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goo...

docs: https://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/closure_goog...

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