Chrome still introduces itself as Mozilla, Safari, and Gecko — none of that is a typo

Every time Chrome connects to a website, it sends along a short line of text identifying the browser, operating system, and device it is running on. This is called a user-agent string, and websites use it to decide what version of a page to serve. Chrome’s introduction, however, reads like an identity crisis.

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