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Firefox from IE, Chrome from Firefox

I just noticed that an Internet Explorer user agent looks something similar to this “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)” that is what I see a lot in my logs, with minor dissimilarities.

And that a Firefox user agent looks something similar to this “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5” again this is what I see a lot in my logs, with minor dissimilarities.

So IE is Mozilla/4.0, and then Mozilla becomes a company and makes Mozilla Firefox, I don’t know if IE used the user agent “Mozilla/4.0” before Mozilla made Firefox, or even before Netscape.

And then I noticed that Firefox uses “chrome://” for things like chrome://browser/content/browser.xul, chrome://browser/content/openLocation.xul, chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul, etc.

You see what’s going on here? Now we have Google Chrome.

See, the name Mozilla Firefox comes from Internet Explorer and the name Google Chrome comes from Mozilla Firefox. What will we see next. Looking at Google Chrome, we might see a name surface from it, and that will become the next competing web browser.

Just found it interesting.