Comment by createaccount99
1 year ago
> That means my browser is pretending to be Firefox AND Safari on an Intel chip.
That's not the case, that ua is Chrome on MacOS. The rest is backward compatibility garbage
1 year ago
> That means my browser is pretending to be Firefox AND Safari on an Intel chip.
That's not the case, that ua is Chrome on MacOS. The rest is backward compatibility garbage
This is the user agent on Chrome, but the reason for all the references to other browsers (and an old OS and architecture), the backward compatibility garbage, is to pretend to be those browsers for the sake of old websites that are doing string matching on the user agents.