Detect Chrome version in Electron

[ibc]

Using Electron 10 which contains Chrome/Chromium 84:

User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4129.0 Electron/10.0.0-nightly.20200514 Safari/537.36"

However, reported browser name and version are:

• name: "Electron"
• version: "10.0.0"

which are kindly useless for taking decisions.

Is it possible to obtain Chrome/Chromium related versions instead?

[adriaandotcom]

Looks like that is expected behavior: https://github.com/lancedikson/bowser/issues/374

[ibc]

I see. The problem is that the important stuff when in Electron is the Chrome version it includes (78 in Electron 8, 84 in Electron 10, etc). I don't know what "Electron browser" means since the real browser into it is Chrome.

Anyway, I end doing lot of stuff like this in my apps:

  if (bowserParser.getBrowserName() === 'Electron') {
    const match = navigator.userAgent.match(/(?:(?:Chrome|Chromium))[ /](\w+)/i);

    if (!match) {
      return undefined;
    }

    version = match[1];

    return version;
  }

It would be great if bowser API included a method to get Chrome version from UserAgent.