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Old 01-02-2010, 07:15 PM
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Re: why does it say mozilla?

Nearly every browser has Mozilla in the user agent. Mozilla was the code name for Netscape. Back when that was the dominant browser and a lot of browser features were not standard, sites were coding to look for Mozilla in the user agent string to enable proprietary features. Once other browsers (like IE) had those features implemented too, they started calling themselves Mozilla in the user agent to spoof web sites into providing "Netscape only" content to IE users. As to why after all these years that little hack remains, I couldn't tell you...

Long story short -- don't worry about it!
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