Chrome version shows 0.0

@majick:

Thanks for noticing – and posting – that older versions of Chrome show the version number even when the most recent shows 0.0.

I have an application that displays the visitor’s browser name and version on a webpage. Showing that “Your browser version is 0.0” looks bad, even if it doesn’t mess anything up. Now, when PHP Browser Detection plugin is not up-to-date, I can at least display “Your browser version is current” using something like:

// make sure other plugins are loaded first...
if(function_exists('get_browser_name')) {
	$myplugin_browser_name = get_browser_name();
};
if(function_exists('get_browser_version')) {
	$myplugin_browser_version = get_browser_version();
};
if ( ($myplugin_browser_version=='0.0')&&($myplugin_browser_name=='Chrome') ) {
	$myplugin_browser_version = 'current';
};

I imagine, though, that if Chrome 45 comes out before they update PHP Browser Detection, then both Chrome 44 and Chrome 45 will both result in “current”, unfortunately. Hopefully it won’t take that long.

Not working.

I’ve installed the version you linked to above (in a clean, up-to-date, sandbox site with almost nothing else installed) and it is not working. It reports ‘Default Browser’ and version 0.0 for both Chrome and Firefox.

I also tried installing the new version 3.1.6 from the WordPress repository, with the same results.

What info do you need?

get_browser_name() returns Default Browser
(for both Chrome v 44.0 and FF v 40.0.3)

get_browser_version() returns 0.0
(same browsers)

This is installed on an almost-clean version of WP 4.3 with theme: 2015

Installation is on a shared hosting provider.

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M' );

Let me know what other info you need and I’ll give you any info you need.

This worked fine with earlier version of your plugin and still does (up to 3.1.4, which reports Chrome version 0.0).

I tried un-installing and re-installing your plugin to try to force retrieval of a new browscap file. This made no difference.

What else can I tell you?

Thanks!

This problem has become a nearly inconsequential one but I am still curious about it.

This is now an issue only on a computer running Windows XP. Others do not exhibit this issue.

Curiously – to me, anyway – on those machines, it not only doesn’t return info about the operating system but doesn’t return the browser and browser version either.

<pre>Array
(
    [browser_name] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
    [browser_name_regex] => ^.*$
    [browser_name_pattern] => *
    [Parent] => DefaultProperties
    [Comment] => Default Browser
    [Browser] => Default Browser
    [isMobileDevice] =>
    [isTablet] =>
    [Version] => 0.0
    [Platform] => unknown
    [Device_Type] => unknown
)
</pre>

For further testing, I tried to overwrite browscap.ini in the plugin’s cache folder with the standard version rather than the lite version. (“Default Browser” only started showing up with the switch to the lite version, I think.) That however doesn’t seem to have changed anything. Is there anything more I’d need to do than overwriting that single file, if I wanted to test it with the standard browscap.ini file?