Why does JQuery.browser.version return 1.9.1.2 for Firefox 3.5.2

browser, jquery, version

Solution

Apparently jQuery reports the version of the Gecko rendering engine

Problem

Does anybody know why JQuery.browser.version returns 1.9.1.2 for Firefox 3.5.2 What's the pattern? How to detect major versions? ``` navigator.userAgent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2" navigator.appVersion "5.0 (Macintosh; en-US)" ```

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