In 2020, Microsoft changed their browser Edge to use Chromium.
Xbox now uses that Chromium Edge browser.
With Chromium "Xbox" is no longer included in the user agent
Before Chromium, the User-Agent looked like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Xbox; Xbox One) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17748
With Chromium the user agent from the console is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0
However, Xbox is still present inside of the Client Hint Sec-CH-UA-Model.
Test
I tested this implementation on the demo page
Before
After
Impact
To sum it up, this fixes Xbox detection for ua-parser-js!
Other Info
While the old Xbox user-agent did include the version of the console (Xbox One), it is no longer included in the newer User-Agent, meaning that os.version will have to stay undefined, as it is not possible to detect it.
Fixed Xbox Detection for Chrome-Based Edge
Prerequisites
Type of Change
Bug fix,
Description
In 2020, Microsoft changed their browser Edge to use Chromium. Xbox now uses that Chromium Edge browser. With Chromium "Xbox" is no longer included in the user agent
Before Chromium, the User-Agent looked like this:
With Chromium the user agent from the console is:
However, Xbox is still present inside of the Client Hint
Sec-CH-UA-Model.Test
I tested this implementation on the demo page
Before
After
Impact
To sum it up, this fixes Xbox detection for ua-parser-js!
Other Info
While the old Xbox user-agent did include the version of the console (Xbox One), it is no longer included in the newer User-Agent, meaning that
os.versionwill have to stay undefined, as it is not possible to detect it.Reference: Old Xbox agent on the demo page