The value of the Navigator.appName property is always "Netscape", in any browser. This property is kept only for compatibility purposes.
Note: Do not rely on this property to return a real browser name. All browsers return "Netscape" as the value of this property.
The string "Netscape".
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-navigator-appname-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
appName |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/appName