Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE

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Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE 360

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 31, 2005 @02:26PM from the bold-new-world dept.

Anonymous reader writes "The Opera browser will stop spoofing its User Agent (UA) as Internet Explorer. Currently Opera, by default, spoofs its UA to identify itself as Internet Explorer. This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera."

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Opera not supported (Score:2, Funny)

by joepeg ( 87984 ) writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @02:36PM (#13208841)

I tried to read the linked article with the new Opera release, but it said it only supports IE ...

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Prediction: (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @03:02PM (#13209010)

IE usage statistics will be down by two.

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Re:Screwed both ways (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @03:07PM (#13209036)

I like to fuck with Opera blocking sites by entering as IE and then changing to Opera when I'm just about to spend a lot of money there.

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Re:Screwed both ways (Score:2, Funny)

by legirons ( 809082 ) writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @03:27PM (#13209141)

"They've always had Opera and the version in the useragent string - they just have the MSIE bit in there as well."

We just have to hope that Opera doesn't become popular, otherwise you'll have to have "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 7) (Opera) TheActualBrowserName" in a user-agent to get pages served to you...

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No Comment. (Score:2, Funny)

by Palal ( 836081 ) writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @04:24PM (#13209480) Homepage

http://www.kuvaton.com/kuvei/ff.jpg [kuvaton.com]

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Re:0.2% Opera on our site (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @09:14PM (#13210641)

So you're one of those idiots who fall on the low end of the IQ spectrum and criticize anyone who is more intelligent than you. Good for you, loser.

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Re:0.2% Opera on our site (Score:3, Funny)

by toddestan ( 632714 ) writes: on Sunday July 31, 2005 @09:42PM (#13210729)

Looks very familiar. I came across IQ stats some days ago and they looked very similar...

Like the original poster, it appears that you've lost about 6% somewhere.

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Re:Screwed both ways (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 01, 2005 @09:35AM (#13213343)

Don't tell me; let me guess: Whenever you have to use "they're", "their", or "there", you just pick one at random, don't you?

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