using firefox, being told its netscape?

unwashed potato! · 2 Sep 2006 at 22:04

from this link http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_browser i have been told that my browser is netscape and version 5, yet im using firefox v1.5.something. When icheck in IE it is correct but not ff, anyone know whY?

utherpendragon · 2 Sep 2006 at 22:16

Mozilla is based on netscape navigator and firefox is based on that so some older detections recognise it as netscape.

marc2003 · 2 Sep 2006 at 22:31

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