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> What's your favorite web browser? Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
by ohf 9y ago
> What's your favorite web browser?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
- petee 9y agoOne thing I wish were explained is where the 'U' came from; it first shows up when Mozilla was born with Gecko
- petee 9y agoQuick search answered my own question - 'U' indicates USA; As a result of cryptographic export restrictions, different levels of security were shipped in early browsers: U(SA) = 128bit, I(nternational) = 40bit, or N(one).
- astura 9y ago"Strong security (Default) the browser provides crypto support that is stronger than what the "international" builds of Netscape offered circa 1995." https://cat-in-136.github.io/2010/08/u-in-ua-string-and-aboutconfig-pref.html https://cat-in-136.github.io/2010/08/u-in-ua-string-and-abou...
- Macha 9y agoIt was about encryption ciphers, when the US had export restrictions on key lengths. U = USA = 128bit, I = International = 40bit, N = None. Nowadays the U is another vestigal piece of the UA string.
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- hsivonen 9y agoIt first showed up in Netscape 1.x. Getting it removed from Gecko was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572668 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572668 . Chrome and Safari followed.