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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. Opera not supported by joepeg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried to read the linked article with the new Opera release, but it said it only supports IE ...

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  2. Prediction: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    IE usage statistics will be down by two.

  3. Re:Screwed both ways by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like to fuck with Opera blocking sites by entering as IE and then changing to Opera when I'm just about to spend a lot of money there.

  4. Re:Screwed both ways by legirons · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They've always had Opera and the version in the useragent string - they just have the MSIE bit in there as well."

    We just have to hope that Opera doesn't become popular, otherwise you'll have to have "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 7) (Opera) TheActualBrowserName" in a user-agent to get pages served to you...

  5. No Comment. by Palal · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.kuvaton.com/kuvei/ff.jpg

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  6. Re:0.2% Opera on our site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So you're one of those idiots who fall on the low end of the IQ spectrum and criticize anyone who is more intelligent than you. Good for you, loser.

  7. Re:0.2% Opera on our site by toddestan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks very familiar. I came across IQ stats some days ago and they looked very similar...

    Like the original poster, it appears that you've lost about 6% somewhere.

  8. Re:Screwed both ways by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't tell me; let me guess: Whenever you have to use "they're", "their", or "there", you just pick one at random, don't you?