BorisSkratchunkov's Journal: Fun With User Agents on Mozilla

I decided to have some fun with the Mozilla PrefBar tonight and played around with the user agents a bit to see which "browser" would load Microsoft.com fastest. First, I went with Mozilla 1.0 on Windows 98. It simply would not load. Netscape 4.7 loaded perfectly although some of the graphics on the home site were missing. With Netscape 6 on Linux it loaded a tad slower, but was perfect except for the same graphics. Hmmm... Same with IE 5 for Mac. When I changed the user agent to IE6/WinXP, it asked me if I would like to participate in a survey to see how people used "Internet Explorer" and the Microsoft homepage, which, due its extreme humorous nature, I accepted . This time, I noted, the "missing graphics" loaded. Maybe, Microsoft is trying to brainwash people into believing that the current browser being used is inferior, by making it so that only certain content loads? Hmmm... I wonder why a worldwide monopoly that wants everybody to use only their products would do such a thing? It makes me wonder. (snicker, snicker) Please note that all of this experimentation was done on the same computer with the same browser (Mozilla), and no reboots were necessary. Again, I only manipulated the user agents.

Simply hilarious, is it not?