Not getting exact browser name

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Hi Experts,
I am not able to get exact browser name from some browsers in mac. I am getting browser name like below.
"

[FBAN/MessengerForiOS;FBAV/147.0.0.50.87;FBBV/84235609;FBDV/iPhone8,2;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iOS;FBSV/11.2.1;FBSS/3;FBCR/T-Mobile;FBID/phone;F

"
Can any one please help me how to get the exact browser name?
Thanks in advance.

What I have tried:

I tried with below code for getting browser name
var Browsername = navigator.appCodeName;
var Browsername = navigator.appName;
When i used this code the browser name returns like above.

Posted 8-Jan-18 18:19pm

NaniCh

Updated 9-Jan-18 2:43am

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Peter_in_2780 9-Jan-18 0:59am

Are you looking for navigator.userAgent ? That is what the browser will send to a host to identify itself.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2018-01-09T02:43:00

Check this link: JavaScript Window Navigator[^]

It will show you how to get all the information available to you via JavaScript and also will show you how untrustworthy that info is...
For instance 'Netscape' is the application name fro IE11, Chorme and Firefox...
Or 'Mozilla' is the application code name for IE, Chrome, Firefox...

So not getting the browser name is not your fault, the question is why in the first place you looked for it?