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I don't think Firefox should automatically spoof a Chrome user agent.


There's a long tradition of browsers doing exactly that.

The Chrome user agent starts with Mozilla/5.0, ends with Safari, claims to be like Gecko, based on KHTML, and somewhere in there is the string Chrome.

That was done exactly because people were trying to gate which browsers could or couldn't see their page by name, instead of by missing functionality.


If a site doesn't work, I disagree. It should.

The web is becoming a monopoly anyway... a contradiction to what web once meant.




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