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@Preole Preole commented Feb 9, 2014

Instead of using navigator.userAgent string to test for Mozilla Firefox (Which can be spoofed), it may be more robust to use the proprietary InstallTrigger variable present in all gecko-based browsers, including Firefox.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPInstall_API_Reference/InstallTrigger_Object

Instead of using `navigator.userAgent` string to test for Mozilla Firefox (Which can be spoofed), it may be more robust to use the proprietary `InstallTrigger` variable present in all gecko-based browsers, including Firefox.

Source: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPInstall_API_Reference/InstallTrigger_Object>
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