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Code Snippet: Detect Google Chrome w/JavaScript

By Mark Gharibian - Posted on September 8th, 2008
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With Chrome entering the browser market, you may find a need in the not too distant future to code some exceptions for it. In case that day comes, here's a quick snippet of JavaScript for detecting if your users are Chromed out:

You can detect Chrome using the following:
var is_chrome = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1;

Chrome's full user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13