Microsoft Edge detected as Google Chrome!

I have been using ASP.NET Server Side Browser Detection in many of my web applications and I decided to check how Microsoft's new Edge browser would be detected.

Therefore, I decided to try it out and I was extremely surprised by the results!!

The User Agent string that showed up for Microsoft Edge was the following:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240

For the Browser Name property, I ended up with the following:

Chrome

For Browser Version and Browser Type information, I ended up with the following:

42.0
Chrome42


Even with Microsoft's .NET Framework v. 4.6, the result was the same!!

Therefore, until Microsoft fixes this major flaw in their ASP.NET Framework, you will not be able to use Server Side detection for the time being!!

If you want Microsoft to fix this issue, you can vote for this Connect item here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1626463

 

 

Website support for Microsoft Edge browser

Now that I have installed Windows 10, I have been trying to use Microsoft's new Edge browser as a replacement for Internet Explorer to browse many websites.

Unfortunately, most of the websites in the world today don't properly support the latest and greatest browser from Microsoft including Google's own Blogger!!

When browsing websites with Microsoft Edge, pages often do not render correctly or JavaScript on the page may be broken etc.

Therefore, for now, you are probably better off browsing with either Internet Explorer or preferably Mozilla Firefox, Waterfox or Google Chrome instead for a functional browsing experience!!