It's not so much a circle as just a newly coined term for "agent": user agent ~= browser agent ~= microbrowser The terms on the left seem more techni

It's not so much a circle as just a newly coined term for "agent": user agent ~= browser agent ~= microbrowser The terms on the left seem more technical/archaic, those on the right seem more populist/accessible. On the other hand, since this one blogger seems to be the inventor of the term "microbrowser", it's still going to be ambiguous: easily confused with potential alternative definitions such as "lightweight browser", "headless browser" (e.g. selenium webdriver), "browser with low market share", etc.