browser sniffing

To detect the name/version of the web browser that has loaded an HTML page. Most often accomplished with Javascript or VBScript.

<script language=Javascript>
if(app.Name == 'Netscape')
{Alert('Using Netscape')}

browser sniffing by Steven Killick June 21, 2004

Browser Sniffing

When an overly curious parent goes through their teenage child's search history, most often when looking for traces of pornography.

Mother: Have you been watching porn?

Son: Well, I gues you'll just have start browser sniffing to find out!

Browser Sniffing by BingGoogle January 5, 2011

browser sniffing

Checking up on one's web surfing habits.

1. Reading the history of a person's web browser to see where they have been.

2. Pop-up advertising can be activated by active browser sniffing via spyware. The spyware senses that a person has searched for a term or that a term appears on a web page visited by the user and then a pop-up ad appears that is vaguely related to that term.

3. People that surf via unsecured wireless are likely to have their surfing sessions sniffed also.

browser sniffing by Brian K. June 21, 2004