• derpgon@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    I say we just set our UAs to “Firefox”, plain and simple. None of that “Chrome KHTML like Gecko” shit.

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      11 months ago

      Typical Firefox UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

      Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

      See browsers started calling themselves “Mozilla” to say “Hey I can do what Firefox can!” (or back then still navigator, doesn’t matter. So then sites started checking for “Gecko” (which is Mozilla’s browser engine), and browsers (in this case Konqueror, I think) started adding “Hey, I’m like Gecko” to it. Then… it just goes on and on.

      The only things not Mozilla in that Firefox UA are X11, Linux, and x86_64. It never stepped so low as to call itself “Mozilla (like Mosaic)”.