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Expand Up @@ -32,6 +32,22 @@ UI.getCurrent().getPage().fetchCurrentURL(currentUrl -> {
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// TODO add documentation on VaadinSession.getCurrent().getBrowser()
== Accessing Browser Information

During the initial HTTP request, Vaadin reads the user-agent information supplied by the browser and stores them in a [classname]`WebBrowser` instance, which is accessible from the current [classname]`VaadinSession`.

.Getting the browser object
[source,java]
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WebBrowser browser = VaadinSession.getCurrent().getBrowser();
// Print the raw user-agent string
System.out.println(browser.getBrowserApplication());
// Print some parsed browser details
System.out.println("Is Windows: " + browser.isWindows());
System.out.println("Is Chrome: " + browser.isChrome());
System.out.println("Major version: " + browser.getBrowserMajorVersion());
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== Getting the Extended Client-Side Details

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