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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:A better idea... by CrackedButter · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That is such a great but simple idea. Why don't you email Opera about it! I'm being sincere here as well. "if the page looks weird click here" is brilliant and such a simple question for the joe sixpacks out there. You should email them.

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