Question

I’m trying to run a very simple browser detect script and it executes just fine in Safari and Chrome (running on a Mac) but doesn’t execute at all in Firefox. I can boil it down to the simplest possible form, and it still doesn’t execute:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/^.*Chrome.*$/)) {break;}
else {
location="howdy.html"
}
</script>

This has been perplexing me for hours now. Anyone have an idea? Thanks!!

Answer 1

Change location="howdy.html" to location.href="howdy.html"

And also, stop doing browser-sniffing. Do feature detection in your JavaScript to make a more robust application in the long-term.