Ice Weasel - User Agent Problem

User Agent Problem

Further information: Browser sniffing

Some web sites do not recognise the browsers' User agent strings and refuse to work properly. As a workaround, Iceweasel 3.5.5 adds a "like Firefox x.x.x" string to the User-Agent.

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