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by prateekdayal 5024 days ago
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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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.
Thanks for the feedback. We will fix this..
Nice idea - this could be achieved by dropping a cookie.
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.
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...