The operating system the browser is running on.
Type
Values of this type are strings. Possible values are:
"mac"
- The underlying operating system is Mac OS X.
"win"
- The underlying operating system is Windows.
"android"
- The underlying operating system is Android.
"cros"
- The underlying operating system is Chrome OS.
"linux"
- The underlying operating system is Linux.
"openbsd"
- The underlying operating system is Open/FreeBSD.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.runtime
API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json
in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.