User Agent Category: Browsers
Browser signatures in User Agent strings, including browser plugins and media players.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Web Browser | Web Browsers are graphical applications that render rich HTML content and process scripts. Well known web browsers are Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Safari. |
| Offline Browser | Offline browsers download locally web pages to be further inspected and navigated in disconnected mode, without online Internet connection. |
| Plugin/Toolbar | Plugins are browser add-ons, components that you installed on your browser, and which may add their own specific signature in browser's User Agent string. They can be browser Toolbars, Search bars or other kinds of applications, that provide additional functionality each time the user visits a web page, downloads some files or performs a search. |
| Filter/Proxy | Filters may block spam or adult content, and protect your privacy. Proxies are gateways used by client computers, to spoof their real IP address and identity. Their requests are re-routed through the proxy server and appear as coming from someone else. Proxies are also used with good intention, to protect client computers from external intrusions and hacker attacks. We also included here any other browser security-related tool or plugin, and anti-virus online crawlers. |
| Blog/Feed | Blog and RSS/Feed services are either crawlers looking for and collecting data from RSS XML pages from your site, or aggregators you subscribed at with your published feed, and which periodically collect latest news from your XML file. Some advanced Feed aggregators will also let you know how many times your RSS data has been inspected by visitors on their external pages. |
| Text Browser | Text mode browsers extract and display only the text content from web pages. |
| Media | Media players, tools, plugins, crawlers scrapping images, video and multimedia files. Web image editors and downloaders. Video game consoles, Web TV. |
