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28th May 2009 - Link Blog

Changes in Opera's user agent string format (via) How depressing... Opera 10 will ship with 9.80 in the User-Agent string because badly written browser sniffing scripts can’t cope with double digits.

Posted 28th May 2009 at 1:16 am

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