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Considering recent chrome, firefox user agent contains id string of almost every browser in existence, this is so true:

Mozilla/5.0 (...) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36



You just wait for Edge-based-on-Chromium's User-Agent :D


Per a buddy who is using said Edgium (Chromium-based Edge): https://i.imgur.com/p6ZMoJY.png


Oh ffs


Edg?


I assume real live websites are detecting "Edge/" and applying workarounds for the old rendering engine.


Like the maybe-not-actually-true reason why "Windows 9" was skipped and we got 10 instead?


It was too edgy for them.




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