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Detect Chrome vs Chromium #159

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@tysonclugg

Currently Chromium is falsely detected as Chrome because navigator.userAgent doesn't distinguish itself enough from Chrome.

Chromium userAgent:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

DeviceDetector.parse(navigator.userAgent) result:

{
    "client": {
        "type": "browser",
        "name": "Chrome",
        "version": "134.0",
        "engine": "Blink",
        "engineVersion": ""
    },
    "os": {
        "name": "GNU/Linux",
        "version": "",
        "platform": "x64"
    },
    "device": {
        "type": "desktop",
        "brand": "",
        "model": ""
    },
    "bot": null
}

Note that client.name is Chrome in the parse result above.

If we look at navigator.userAgentData.brands we see that this is actually Chromium:

[
    {
        "brand": "Not:A-Brand",
        "version": "24"
    },
    {
        "brand": "Chromium",
        "version": "134"
    }
]

Consider providing alternate methods to parse (or optional arguments) on DeviceDetector that accept additional arguments such as userAgentData (from navigator.userAgentData) and/or plugins (from navigator.plugins) to give more accurate results.

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