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minus-squareAnafabula@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 days agoIt doesn’t discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains “Mozilla”. Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has “Mozilla” in it’s User-Agent string. This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
It doesn’t discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains “Mozilla”.
Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has “Mozilla” in it’s User-Agent string.
This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36