How To Detect PS3 Browser?

Question

So my website is getting a lot of traffic from PS3 browsers (says Google Analytics), I had my girlfriend test this out on her PS3 and the website looks horrible on a flatscreen tv and a smaller tv, this isn't the problem though, I'm looking for a way to detect the PS3 browser and put it into Javascirpt kinda like this:

if (ps3browser) {
/* Blahblahblah */
}

I know this is possible because Google Analytics does it and detects browsers:

Possible duplicate of [redirect PS3 via user agent](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6779631/redirect-ps3-via-user-agent) — jonrsharpe, Dec 13 '15 at 19:22
You should really consider using some different CSS to make it more applicable to all kind of browsers, no matter what resolution they use. — Martin Braun, Dec 13 '15 at 20:20
That's what I'm doing at the moment actually but thanks for the advice. It's just that the PS3 browser is depreciated and loads css and JavaScript weirdly sometimes, so I needed to make a workaround for that. — insanewolfhd, Dec 13 '15 at 23:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '15 at 19:24

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PS3 browsers contain PLAYSTATION in their User-Agents, so you could check the agent of the browser and act on that.. something like :

var agent = navigator.userAgent;
if (agent.indexOf("PLAYSTATION") != -1)
  //PS3 browser

answered Dec 13 '15 at 19:24

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Best answer :) thank you. So something like this would work?: var agent = navigator.userAgent; if (agent.indexOf("PLAYSTATION") != -1) { // Code here } – insanewolfhd Dec 13 '15 at 19:27
@insanewolfhd and is exactly what the duplicate says – jonrsharpe Dec 13 '15 at 19:31
@jonrsharpe that's great :) I didn't see the post, sorry. – insanewolfhd Dec 13 '15 at 23:28

How To Detect PS3 Browser?

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