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Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
>> I had to change its user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; 
>> x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.47 
>> Safari/537.36". :(
> 
> So, truly a return to the bad old days of IE's dominance during the 
> early-Firefox timeframe, where nearly every site claimed "your browser 
> is not supported" yet if one faked the user agent, the site often 
> worked just fine.
> 
> Sadly, faking the user agent then makes Firefox's usage stats look 
> lower, because now it (Firefox) gets counted as an IE instance not a 
> Firefox instance.

Plus of course the users who will know about the User Agent as a
solution will be a small minority of the small minority still using
Firefox, and even many of them might not like it. I just hope this
isn't the beginning of the end for Firefox/Mozilla. Presumably
there's a critical mass of users that allows Mozilla to raise enough
money to develop the complex beast that is Firefox. Though I've never
really understood fully how Mozilla works financially, besides the
standard line that Google pays them to keep their search engine the
default.

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[Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-11 21:00 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-11 22:29 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-03-11 23:44 -0500
      Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-12 07:08 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-12 07:10 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 18:43 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:37 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 22:08 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-13 08:37 -0400
  Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-11 20:34 -0400

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