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Bug 27796 - navigator.appName is always "Netscape"
Summary: navigator.appName is always "Netscape"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#client-...
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Reported: 2015-01-11 08:42 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-09-01 09:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-01-11 08:42:24 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#client-identification
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#client-identification
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Comment:
navigator.appName is always "Netscape"

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36 OPR/26.0.1656.32
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2015-01-11 08:45:26 UTC 
I've tested IE11, Firefox Nightly, Chrome Canary, WebKit Nightly, Safari 8.0.2 and Opera 26.0, and the all return "Netscape", so there's no reason for the spec to say 'or the full name of the browser, e.g. "Mellblom Browsernator"', which allows differences where none is required for Web compat.