On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Mike Hicks wrote:
> I don't care what people do here.  Change it if you like, or don't..
> However, if you change how the browser identifies itself, there may be
> strange consequences.  You probably only want the user agent string to
> be used when retrieving the page, but not when displaying.
>
> If changing the user agent string causes JavaScript code to identify
> the browser as something other than it is, scripts are probably going
> to call functions that don't exist or that are broken.
>
> Not that JavaScript usually does anything useful..

Nice thing about using squid to change it: browser still uses it's own. :)

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