runtime.getBrowserInfo()

Returns information about the browser in which the extension is installed.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

var gettingInfo = browser.runtime.getBrowserInfo()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with an object which has the following properties:

• name: string value representing the browser name, for example "Firefox".
• vendor: string value representing the browser's vendor, for example "Mozilla".
• version: string representing the browser's version, for example "51.0" or "51.0a2".
• buildID: string representing the specific build of the browser, for example "20161018004015".

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

Get and log the browser's name:

function gotBrowserInfo(info) {
  console.log(info.name);
}
var gettingInfo = browser.runtime.getBrowserInfo();
gettingInfo.then(gotBrowserInfo);