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Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE

Posted by timothy on from the bold-new-world dept.

Anonymous reader writes "The Opera browser will stop spoofing its User Agent (UA) as Internet Explorer. Currently Opera, by default, spoofs its UA to identify itself as Internet Explorer. This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera."

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  1. Re:Whining? by bunratty · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    And when, pray tell, has Opera Software "whined"?
    They whine all the time. The CEO whined about Opera being undercounted and Firefox overcounted in the stats. They whined (and borked!, and apparently sued!!) when Microsoft websites sent them broken code. They whined when Apple came out with Safari, and made noises like they wouldn't continue developing Opera on the Mac because of unfair competition.

    And that's just the company itself. Don't even get me started on how Opera's users whine (Hey, Opera had that feature first! They stole it from us!). Damn, I already got started.

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    What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.