Navigator: taintEnabled() method

The Navigator.taintEnabled() method always returns false.

Tainting was a security method used by JavaScript 1.2. It has long been removed; this method only stays for maintaining compatibility with very old scripts.

Syntax

js
taintEnabled()

Parameters

None.

Return value

Always returns false.

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-navigator-taintenabled

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Node.js
taintEnabled
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote Full support
Opera – No support
Opera 12.1 – 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Removed in 15 and later
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – No support
Chrome Android
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android 12.1 – 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Removed in 14 and later
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote No support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Node.js – No support
Node.js
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support

See also