Comment Browsers that fake the user agent (Score 1) 271
>a lot less people are actually using IE than you
>might think. My server logs show that about 80% of
>my visitors use IE, but only about 40% get the
>popunder. My conclusion is that there are a lot of
>browsers out there that fake the user agent, ...
Opera 7.0 is set by default to identify itself as MSIE 6.0. This can be switched back to identify as Opera (or even Mozilla) but most users won't bother.
>might think. My server logs show that about 80% of
>my visitors use IE, but only about 40% get the
>popunder. My conclusion is that there are a lot of
>browsers out there that fake the user agent,
Opera 7.0 is set by default to identify itself as MSIE 6.0. This can be switched back to identify as Opera (or even Mozilla) but most users won't bother.
