Changing the UA String: Difference between revisions

Web browsers send a User Agent string on each request, which identifies the software being used and often some features of the platform. From time to time, proposals are made to change the User Agent string sent by Mozilla browsers. MDN [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference records our current user agent string]. This page is an attempt to document the arguments for and against, to avoid needless repetition. (Although the arguments 'for' tend to vary from case to case more than the arguments 'against'.)