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Web dev: What browser is visiting the page?

User agent string:

A screenshot of a browser. The URL bar reads firefox://settings, a button on the URL bar is labelled Netscape, a popup from the button reads: "You're viewing a secure Opera page", and the web page title reads "Chrome settings".

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it... (scrolls wheel of browsers) Lynx?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm still amazed at how usable Lynx is, given the insane premise of the application.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's so insane about it? Web browsers are an evolution of the old gopher protocol. All this stuff has roots in text consoles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The history makes plenty of sense, and explains why it's there in the fist place. The modern internet was not designed to use by console, though.