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Microsoft internet explorer 11 for mac5/16/2023 If this user-agent string is the final one (Microsoft hasn’t confirmed or denied this is the user-agent string), then it shows how one can manipulate the user-agent string to get different results. Internet Explorer 3 actually began the practice by using “Mozilla” in the user-agent string so it would be identified by servers trying to filter for Netscape. If you’ve read my history of user-agent strings post, then you’re aware of the sinister history of user-agent strings and how browsers try to trick servers into believing that they are other browsers. The string in question, reported by Neowin 1, looks like this: Mozilla/5.0 (IE 11.0 Windows NT 6.3 Trident/7.0. And so when some beta testers leaked an Internet Explorer 11 user-agent string, people sat up and paid attention. User-agent string announcements are typically met with a keen eye as we are still horribly tied to user-agent sniffing on servers around the world. Over the past few days, people have been going a little crazy over the announcement of the Internet Explorer 11 user-agent string. Browsers, Internet Explorer, User Agent String
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