UserAgent string thread

[Antony]

testing Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2
on Mac OS X 10.2.1 on iBook (G3, 800 MHz)

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)

[Antony]

Testing Safari 2.0
on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on iBook (G3, 800 MHz, PowerPC)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412

[Antony]

testing Safari 3.0.4
on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on iBook (G3, 800 MHz)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12

[Edward]

Testing Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Vista Home Premium, 32-bit.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0)

[James]

Firefox 8

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1

[Antony]

Testing Classilla 9.2.3, a Mozilla (SeaMonkey) based browser for Mac OS 8 or 9 (available from classilla.org),
on Mac OS 9.22

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:9.2.3) Clecko/20111010 Classilla/CFM

[Edward]

Testing Google Chrome 16 on Windows Vista 32-bit.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

[Antony]

Testing Safari 1.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.3 on a just system restored PowerMac G4 (1.33 GHz).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

[Antony]

Testing Firefox 3.6.25 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.14 Firefox/3.6.25

[Antony]

Testing Firefox 3.6.25 on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.9. Which is the latest Firefox run on this platform, and Mozilla dares to call 3.6.25 “out of date” while continuing to support the much much older Windows 2000.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 Firefox/3.6.25

[Edward]

Testing Firefox 9.0.1 on Linux x86_64.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1

[Antony]

Testing Firefox 9.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 on MacBook Pro

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1

[Edward]

Has it been reported exactly why the last few Firefox UserAgent strings have been showing a Gecko revision date of 20100101?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111217 Firefox/9.0 SeaMonkey/2.6

[James]

Testing Amazon Kindle Fire.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-84) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16 Silk-Accelerated=true

[DJGM]

Testing Amazon Kindle Fire.


UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-84) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16 Silk-Accelerated=true

Hmmm, funny how the browser on this device reports itself as Safari on Mac OS X, though it's running Android.
I'd assume, even though this browser uses the same rendering engine as Safari and Chromium, there's a way
to reset the UA string to report it's true identity, rather that pretending it's on a Mac, when it physically isn't.

I guess the only reason the default set UA reports itself as Mac is so the desktop versions of websites can
be displayed by default, since other tablets go directly to the websites specifically recreated for mobiles.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 Lightning/1.0