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Re:Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String by danielnr on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:57AM (#5437694)
I haven't seen web servers send back different pages for non-Mozilla browsers since Mozilla browsers were selectively served frames[0], which is why most User-Agent strings contain "Mozilla". Despite whether this is a good idea or not, it's nostalgically entertaining to see history repeat itself like this.

[0] http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

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