runtime.getBrowserInfo()

Returns information about the browser in which this add-on is installed.

Syntax

chrome.runtime.getBrowserInfo(
  function(browserInfo) {...} // function
)

This API is also available as browser.runtime.getBrowserInfo() in a version that returns a promise.

Parameters

callback

function. The function is passed the following arguments:

browserInfo

An object with the following properties:

• name: string value representing the browser name, for example "Firefox".
• vendor: string value representing the browser's vendor, for example "Mozilla".
• version: string representing the browser's version, for example "51.0" or "51.0a2".
• buildID: string representing the specific build of the browser, for example "20161018004015".

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

Get and log the browser's name:

function gotBrowserInfo(info) {
  console.log(info.name);
}

chrome.runtime.getBrowserInfo(gotBrowserInfo);