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Re:User-agent string changes by cpeterso on Saturday November 22, 2014 @03:01PM (#8646492)
Even removing"Mozilla/" could break UA detection that uses hardcoded string indexes to version numberz. :(
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Re:User-agent string changes by anonymfus on Saturday November 22, 2014 @03:43PM (#8646600)
Opera since 9.0 up to 12.x had user-agent without Mozilla. I still use Opera 12.17 and mostly only Google's sites are broken.
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Re:User-agent string changes by cpeterso on Saturday November 22, 2014 @09:50PM (#8647637)
Interesting! I did not know that, though I think many users would complain if "only" Google's sites were broken in browser X but not Y. :)
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