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		paulryanrogers on Feb 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers tha... For years I sent a blank UA string. It worked surprisingly well until about 2010. Only real issue was some Tomcat servers would just barf out stack traces. UA switcher is a pretty popular addon in the Mozilla ecosystem. So it may well be more popular than UA stats alone can surmise. (Though probably not enough to matter to businesses too lazy to test anything besides the top two.)

moffkalast on Feb 8, 2023 | [–]

According to Mozilla only like a third of all Firefox users have installed any add-on at all. So multiply the number by 150% and you have the highest possible Firefox usage rate.

rerdavies on Feb 9, 2023 | [–]

Similar experience. :-P It didn't seem to be mandatory until suddenly it was.

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