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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:Screwed both ways by swright · · Score: 5, Informative

    gah, they *already do*!

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

    this fools the lame IE-only stuff, but lets any sensible software detect that really it is Opera.

    more info here: http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml? index=570