Which program am I?

[Anthony Lieuallen]

I'm looking for a proper way to tell which application an extension,
compatible with more than one is running in.

Simply put, "Am I Firefox or Thunderbird?"

[Soyapi Mumba]

Anthony Lieuallen wrote:
> I'm looking for a proper way to tell which application an extension,
> compatible with more than one is running in.

Check the value of navigator.userAgent

This is what I use:

// -------------------
if (navigator.userAgent.search(/Thunderbird/gi) != -1) {
// Thunderbird specific code
} else {
// Firefox code
}
// ----------------

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[Gijs Kruitbosch ("Hannibal")]

Soyapi Mumba wrote:
> Anthony Lieuallen wrote:
>> I'm looking for a proper way to tell which application an extension,
>> compatible with more than one is running in.
>
> Check the value of navigator.userAgent
>
> This is what I use:
>
> // -------------------
> if (navigator.userAgent.search(/Thunderbird/gi) != -1) {
> // Thunderbird specific code
> } else {
> // Firefox code
> }
> // ----------------
>
> - Soyapi

Generally, if available, you should use nsIXULAppInfo for that.
See
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/extensions/irc/xul/content/static.js&rev=1.215#412
for an example.

HTH,
Gijs

[LouCypher]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_nsIXULAppInfo

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_nsIXULAppInfo#ID
"Note: you could also use nsIXULAppInfo.name, which is a human-readable
name for the application, such as "Firefox", but who knows, maybe
they'll rename it again!"

[Philip Chee]

On 16 Nov 2006 04:04:36 -0800, LouCypher wrote:

> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_nsIXULAppInfo

> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_nsIXULAppInfo#ID
> "Note: you could also use nsIXULAppInfo.name, which is a human-readable
> name for the application, such as "Firefox", but who knows, maybe
> they'll rename it again!"

Yeah. On Debian, Firefox is now known as IceWeasel for some obscure reason.

Phil

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