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The first part of the Chrome user agent being "Mozilla" always amuses me.
I read a historical explanation of user agents and its just about the most retarded, convoluted thing ever. Definitely amusing though.
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God I'm sorry man I read it a while back, just hadn't thought about how stupid and useless they are now. I vaguely recall how it all got messed up and all the major browsers go intertwined, and it went back to Netscape and shit. I'll try to find it, was a really great simple breakdown. Was left thinking how stupid and useless it was though.