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Web dev: What browser is visiting the page?

User agent string:

A screenshot of a browser. The URL bar reads firefox://settings, a button on the URL bar is labelled Netscape, a popup from the button reads: "You're viewing a secure Opera page", and the web page title reads "Chrome settings".

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[โ€“] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 130 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Functionally useless. With the web standardized, we shouldn't need user agents anyway. It would be more beneficial to ask "do you support X, Y, and Z?"

[โ€“] sacbuntchris@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Lazy web developers or clueless managers have entered the chat

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