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Google Chrome Browscap.ini Amendments

The release of the Google Chrome browser has led to a slight change in browser usage, and as time goes on and Google adds new features to nthe browser, it is likely to only get used more and more.

A lot of sites use visitor tracking software, and some use browser sniffing to deliver content tailored to that particular browser. Currently, the best way of doing this is with the browscap.ini file, which details a huge amount of browsers and browsing agents, from Firefox to Googlebot. However, the ini file is not yet up-to-date with the latest browser, so here is my contribution towards the work:

  1. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Google Chrome
  3. [Chrome]
  4. Parent=DefaultProperties
  5. Browser="Google Chrome"
  6. Frames=true
  7. IFrames=true
  8. Tables=true
  9. Cookies=true
  10. JavaApplets=true
  11. JavaScript=true
  12. CSS=2
  13. CssVersion=2
  14. supportsCSS=true
  16. [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; *; Windows NT 5.1; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/* Safari/*]
  17. Parent=Chrome
  18. Platform=WinXP
  19. Win32=true
  21. [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; *; Windows NT 5.1 x64; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/* Safari/*]
  22. Parent=Chrome
  23. Platform=WinXP
  24. Win32=false
  25. Win64=true
  27. [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; *) AppleWebKit/* (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/* Safari/*]
  28. Parent=Chrome
  29. Platform=WinVista
  30. Win32=false
  31. Win64=true

As there are very few user agent strings that I have available to work with at the moment, so this only tracks the browser on the 3 Windows operating systems I could the strings for. Obviously this will have to change quite a bit in the next few months when Google releases their browser for the Mac OS and Linux, but for now it should do the job.