Mozilla modifies Firefox user agent due to confusion with Internet Explorer – Computer – News

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It is really too loopy that Firefox has to give you a workaround, nevertheless it’s good that they do it. Firefox’s market share is already shrinking and this will price you customers.

By the way in which, if up to now browsers recognized themselves in a standard approach, we’d even have regular Person-Agent strings now. That is Chrome on MacOS with an M1 Max: Person-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

However Safari is not significantly better, by the way in which: Person-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Model/16.2 Safari/605.1.15

En Firefox: Person-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Aside from the truth that all of them have the structure improper, it is attention-grabbing to see that Firefox would not throw Safari into the consumer agent. No concept why she’s doing this. Maybe for historic causes in order that browser builders did not have to attend for web sites to correctly assist their browser?