What is User Agent in Browser?

Why we need User Agent in Browser?

There are browsers that come with their own  which is the code that tells the browser what kind of software it is. These can be different for each browser and they can also change depending on the version of a browser.

What is User Agent in Browser?

How to get User Agent in Browser?

This is an identifier for the browser. It can be a specific name like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, or a generic name like Internet Explorer or Safari. It is use by websites to identify which browser the visitor is using, and to provide appropriate content.

Conclusion

Browsers use this information to determine how to render pages. For example, if you have an older version of Internet Explorer, your user agent might say “IE 5.” If you’re using Firefox on a Mac, your user agent might say “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36.”