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Given that IE seems to include all the installed programs on your computer in the UA, I would have thought there's quite a lot of info. I've seen some really long IE UA strings, including all versions of .NET installed, InfoPath, random stuff for adding smilies to emails (really!), and so on.

Combine that with a few other hints, and you've got something interesting.

Maybe you could distill it to a very simple description, like IE6 or FF3.5? I wouldn't have thought you'd want to drop knowing which browsers your users are using.



Good idea. For the time being, I just turned user agents off. I have't really got much use out of knowing what browser's people are on anyway.




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