check chrome version from console

Question

Is there a way to detect Google Chrome's version from the console. I know I can parse the user agent string - but I prefer a more concise way.

Here is what I currently have:

var uaStr = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var index = uaStr.indexOf('chrome/'); uaStr.substring(index +7,index+11); 

I would like to know if there's a better way - something like chrome.version()

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Chrome DevTools Console execute the following statement:

 > navigator.appVersion.match(/.*Chrome\/([0-9\.]+)/)[1] 

And you will get the version number as a string

 > "51.0.2704.103"