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"> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox" This is
by gavinlynch 14y ago
"> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox"
This is a little misleading. "Like Gecko" is not used in the Firefox UA String. It just says Gecko. "Like Gecko" is a component of Webkit-based browsers. So IE is emulating Webkit emulating Firefox, and dries the "MS" of "MSEI" for their string, and going with just "IE".
via Peter Paul-Koch: "IE11 to disguise itself as WebKit (and not Firefox!)", http://mobilism.nl/blog/2013/03/ie11-to-disguise-itself http://mobilism.nl/blog/2013/03/ie11-to-disguise-itself