What could be described as an end to an era, especially to those of use who knew Internet Explorer 6 as all that was, Microsoft announced last week that it changing the underlying component (Rendering Engine) that powers its current web browser, Microsoft Edge, to use the same one used by Google for Chrome. The …
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The History of the Browser User Agent
I came across this very old article on the history of the web browser user agent string via OS News. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), …