Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings
This page was getting big - we're talking big. So we split the mobile things onto a separate page.
We started these pages with four strings because we had never seen a comprehensive list anywhere. Nominally RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 define them (get the RFCs here) but only as an afterthought (the RFCs define HTTP 1.0 and 1.1). Browser IDs (more correctly User Agent IDs) appear, among other places, as the environmental variable HTTP_USER_AGENT in Apache). You need this information to make the fewest checks possible for the browser environment - or how to optimise the display or ... to know who and what is crawling around your site.
For browser historians. We thought that Mosaic was the original browser. As usual we were wrong. James Butler took the time to drop us an email - thanks:
"Before there was NSCA's Mosaic there were several other browsers capable of interpreting HTML, including Erwise and Viola, both of which I used before the Andreeson project issued any software. Although primarily for viewing SGML, both of those browsers did a pretty good job of parsing the very basic HTML commands that Mr. Berners-Lee published as he developed his SGML subset (HTML)."
We are discontinuing the crawler section - there is much better coverage at this site which is the home of robots.txt which is, as you all know, the file that tells well behaved crawlers to 'keep out' of your dirty linen.
The Browser Strings
A small Active X Windows only browser - no javascript and CSS support we think. Trial version downloadable. No visible price information.
Science Traveller International 1X/1.0
»»» 1X on Windows something - pretty descriptive string. String from Jonathan McCormack - thanks.
A tiny - we're talking 750K download - browser for Windows. Supports Style sheets but no JS we suspect. Freeware.
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible)
»»» Act 10 on something? String from Anita O'Brien - thanks.
The W3C's own hosted browser and authoring tool project, another Open Source project. Runs on Windows and Linux/Unix. Pretty quirky the last time we downloaded it (long time ago).
amaya/6.2 libwww/5.3.1
»»» Amaya 6.2 (current version) on something? String from Jens Tønnesen - thanks.
Amiga browser - or should we say - the Amiga browser. Shareware browser for all you Amiga/Morphos fans.
AmigaVoyager/3.4.4 (MorphOS/PPC native)
»»» AmigaVoyager 3.4.4 on a PowerPC? String from poeml ? - thanks.
A fast (they say) kinda tabbed version of MSIE. Free forever (they say).
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM)
»»»Avant Browser (MSIE 6 clone) on XP with SP2 and .NET framework. FDM is a free download manager. String from Suluh Legowo - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Avant Browser [avantbrowser.com]; Hotbar 4.4.5.0)
»»»Avant Browser (MSIE 6 clone) on Win 2K. String from Dean Stringer - thanks.
AWeb has been around for a while but was Open Sourced in 2002 (hence the Beta references on the site) Originally released in mid nineties - now being overhauled. We suspect this project (Amiga) generally is seeing more action now that when it was at in its heyday..
MSIE/6.0; (Spoofed by Amiga-AWeb/3.4APL)
»»» No fooling around with this one - straight to the point. String from pomel? - thanks.
Not strictly a browser but an HTML editor and part of the openoffice suite. Or does someone know better?
bluefish 0.6 HTML editor
»»» Bluefish 0.6 (Free HTML editor) on Linux Mandrake 8.0
An Open Source browser for Linux and cross-complied to Windows (Mingw32). Uses C and Tcl/Tk. Not a Gecko clone.
Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; U; ) - BrowseX (2.0.0 Windows)
»»» BrowseX on Linux we assume from the X11? String from Jonathan McCormack - thanks.
Mozilla's own MAC OS X lightweight browser project. Version 0.6 reflects the name Chimera which was the original name of this project. Mozilla do like to change browser names a lot.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Camino/0.7+
»»» Camino (ex Chimera) 0.7 on a MAC. Hot from the nighly builds and its got the aqua look by embedding in Cocoa (not a skin we are told) (String courtesy of Robert Johnson).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6
»»» Chimera 0.6 on a MAC??. We think it only runs on OS X. But has it got an aqua skin!! (String courtesy of John Reid).
Browse, monitor for page changes and download webs - mmmmmmmmmmm. Next time you hear a giant sucking sound it may be this guy.
Mozilla/2.0 compatible; Check&Get 1.14 (Windows NT)
»»» Check&Get Version 1.14 on NT 4.0. Sloppy browser string no parentheses. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
cURL (yeah that's the way they want it spelled) is a command line tool (similar to wget) for accessing web based stuff. Runs on Linux, BSD and MAC OS X.
curl/7.7.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.0) libcurl 7.7.2 (OpenSSL 0.9.6b)
»»» The current version of cURL is 7.10.5 (built on libcurl). On a Mac OS X 10.2.6 system, with Darwin kernel version 6.6. (String from Stephen Paulsen - thanks).
A very (like < 500K dowload very) lightweight GTK-based browser. Seems to run only on Linux but the GTK implies it could be ported.
Dillo/0.8.3
»»» Dillo under Mandrake 10.1 with kernel 2.6.7. As Andrew remarked "These Dillo strings don't get any more exciting, do they? Still a nice light-and-fast browser though." String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Dillo/0.8.2
»»» Dillo under NetBSD on Transmeta Crusoe (and just how do we know that - 'cos Alex told us that's how). String from Alex Poylisher - thanks.
Dillo/0.8.2
»»» Dillo on Linux Mandrake 10.0 (with a 2.6 kernel - gotta read between the chars!). String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Dillo/0.6.6
»»» Dillo 0.6.6 on ?. Dumb lack of Mozilla compatibility version see our rants.
Proprietary SGML and XML parsers built on top of the standard Gecko engine. Win32 only. Theory is you can directly view HTML, SGML and XML pages. Clever or what. Free non-commercial use otherwise they stiff you for money - the devils!.
DocZilla/1.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020804
»»» DocZilla 1.0 RC1. No Mozilla compatability number - dumb. Could find no menu option to change the string.
Enhanced Links - a development fork - text only browser. There are a lot of folks who (a) only want the data - forget all the fancy graphic stuff and (b) are visually challenged and need control.
ELinks (0.4.2; Linux; )
»»» Elinks 0.4.2 (older version - latest is 0.9.x). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Another lightweight GNOME-based browser built on top of the Gecko rendering engine. *nix's only.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Epiphany/1.2.6
»»» Epiphany 1.2.6 on FreeBSD (Hurrah). String from Edwin Chambers - thanks
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Epiphany/1.0.4
»»» Epiphany 1.0.4 on Linux. String from Eric Bowman - thanks
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 Epiphany/0.9.2
»»» Epiphany 0.9.2 on Linux. String from Adam Hauner - thanks
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Epiphany/0.8.4
»»» Epiphany version 0.8.4 on Linux. (String from Adam Hauner - thanks)
Not strictly a browser - this is the tool used by FreeBSD when you do that automagical 'make install' in the ports collection. Great system we love it to death.
fetch libfetch/2.0
»»» FreeBSD's 'ports collection' download tool. Should only appear on FTP sites. String from Steven Heumann - thanks.
Phoenix is dead - long live Firebird. Firebird is dead - long live Firefox. Firebird/Phoenix has morph'd into the new Firefox. The Mozilla roadmap shows Firefox as the browser for the next generation of Mozilla. Essentially (if we can paraphrase a very big page) the mozilla design team are saying that they will develop a set of components (browser, mail client, editor (composer) and others) which will work well together but will have their own development priorities and timeframes, rather than the monolithic current Mozilla structure. The historic Phoenix and Firebird strings are still here. We don't care about the name but we would like them to fix our bug! (since 1.4 no less).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
»»» Firefox 1.0 - running on XP64 (build 3790 c. 1218). String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
»»» Firefox 1.0 - running on Win 95. Not officially supported but clearly works according to Andrew as long as you update some libraries. String from Andrew Turnbull - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
»»» Firefox 1.0 Final release Nov 8, 2004 - Running on Win XP64 no less. String from Sean Cheshire - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
»»» Firefox 1.0 Final release Nov 8, 2004 - Running on Win XP Pro SP2. String from Dennis Henderson, Douglas Mosman, Jonathan Walker and Jeff Conrad - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
»»» Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 2 on Win XP Pro. String from Dennis Henderson - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.5.6+
»»» Interesting oddity. A Netscape prototype of a browser based on Firefox info here though you have to register. Apparently no longer available? String from Louise McCormack - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040815 Firefox/0.8 (MOOX M3)
»»» Customised build (optimised for speed and stability) of Firefox on XP Pro. String from Erik Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Waterunicorn/0.10 StumbleUpon/1.998
»»» Customised Firefox from Cosmic Cat on XP Pro. This one changes the browser name every time it hits a page - we thought Firefox .. or is that Firebird .. etc., etc.. were doing a pretty good job on their own. With stumbleupon toolbar. String from Erik Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1
»»» Latest Win-32 Firefox on XP Pro. This is the one that fixes the security problem. String from Anders Pedersen - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10
»»» Latest Win-32 Firefox on XP Pro comes complete with a security problem. String from Anders Pedersen - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Spacebug/0.10 (aka Firefox/0.10)
»»» Latest Firefox with extension from Cosmic Cat Creations. String from Ignasi Peiro - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
»»» Very strange numbering should be 1.0 surely?. Erik also observes they dropped the language code - maybe they are going to change the name again!! String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
»»» Out of order FireFox 0.8 - but on a MAC! - we guess that OS X allows MAC guys standard *nix browser choices. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 StumbleUpon/1.998
»»» Standard Firefox but with stumbleupon toolbar. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
»»» Version of FireFox 0.9.2 - another oopsy version upgrade in german this time (fixes the gottchas), Gecko 1.7 engine on Win2K. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 Firefox/0.9.1
»»» Version of FireFox 0.9.1 - much improved version (in our language - fixes the gottchas), Gecko 1.7 engine on FreeBSD (yipee). String from Edwin Chambers - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040708 Firefox/0.9.1
»»» Version of FireFox 0.9.1 (this is the one that fixes the gottchas), Gecko 1.7 engine on NetBSD (hurrah) on AMD Athlon/Thunderbird. String from Alex Poylisher - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
»»» Version of FireFox 0.9.1 (this is the one that fixes the gottchas), Gecko 1.7 engine on Win2K. String from Anders Pedersen - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040619 Firefox/0.9
»»» FireFox 0.9. but with Gecko 1.7 engine on FreeBSD. String from Edwin Chambers - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
»»» FireFox 0.9. but with Gecko 1.7 engine (see below) on Microsoft Windows XP Pro. String from Frank Spychaj - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040416 Firefox/0.8.0+
»»» One of the Firefox nightly builds with a Gecko 1.8 engine on Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4. String from Anders Pedersen (a brave guy taking nightly builds) - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Mnenhy/0.6.0.103
»»» FireFox 0.8 on XP - but with an oddball extension. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
»»» Smokin' Hot from the Mozilla press on the day of release. Firebird (Mozilla's new browser) version 0.8 (latest and greatest) on Linux (distro SuSE 8.2) this the english language version with a german language preference. String from Erik - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
»»» Firebird (Mozilla's new browser) version 0.7 (latest and greatest) on XP this the french language version. String from Christophe Agathon - nous vous remercions.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031023 Firebird/0.7
»»» Firebird (Mozilla's new browser) version 0.7 (latest and greatest) on FreeBSD 5.1 (latest and greatest). String from Andreas Kohn - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20031002 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
»»» Firebird version 0.6.1 on Debian 3.0 Woody. String from Philippe Bechamp - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
»»» Firebird (Mozilla's new browser) version 0.6 on Mandrake Linux 9.0. String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4m; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
»»» Firebird 0.6 running on a SPARCstation 20 (note sun4m) under Solaris 8. String from Michael Doyle - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4m; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
»»» Firebird 0.6 running on a Sun SPARCstation 20 w. 2 200MHZ HyperSPARC procs. under Sol 2.8 1/01. String from Michael Doyle - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
»»» Phoenix (Mozilla lite) version 0.5 on Windows NT 4.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021001 Phoenix/0.2
»»» Phoenix (Mozilla lite) version 0.2 on Windows NT 4.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020923 Phoenix/0.1
»»» Phoenix (Mozilla lite) version 0.1 on Windows XP
A lightweight GNOME-based browser built on top of the Mozilla rendering engine. *nix's only
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Galeon/1.3.18
»»» Galeon 1.3.18 on Mandrake Linux 10.1 with kernel 2.6.7 Intel platform. String from Andrew Praeter - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Galeon/1.3.17 (Debian package 1.3.17-2)
»»» Galeon 1.3.17 on Debian (not we think 1.3.17!) Intel platform. String from Liam Morland - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040406 Galeon/1.3.15
»»» Galeon 1.3.15 on FreeBSD on Intel platform. String from Edwin Chanbers - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Galeon/1.3.12
»»» Galeon 1.3.12 on Linux on Intel platform. String from Eric Bowman - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030422 Galeon/1.3.4
»»» Galeon 1.3.4 on Slackware 9 on Intel'ish platform. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020326
»»» Galeon 1.2.0 on Redhat 7.2
The original Java based browser. Suspect it has not had the develoment resources and so is a pretty ho-hum browser by to-days high standards but still love that name.
Mozilla/3.0 (x86 [en] Windows NT 5.1; Sun)
»»» HotJava verion 3.0 on Windows XP. String from Robin Lionheart - thanks.
Not strictly a browser but a collection of Java classes implementing HTTP functions that can be used by an application to handle HTTP stuff (also provided as part of Apache's Jakarta project - thanks to Joe Francis for the update). Application could be a browser if you so wished or an e-mail harvester or whatever. HTTPClient We featured this string in our mystery section and still do. Not HTTPClients fault if some nasty guys use a harmless library for nasty things.
Mozilla/4.5 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-2
»»» HTTPClient version 0.3-2 on ?? String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks.
The venerable and unique Amiga lives on and even has its own browser - IBrowse. 68k CPU browser for Amiga and Pegasos computers. Runs on Amiga OS3.X and compatables such as MorphOS. Will also run on the following hardware: Pegasos I and II, Amiga, PC or MAC using a version of UAE or Amithlon.
IBrowse/2.3 (AmigaOS 4.0)
»»» Ibrowse 2.3 for AmigaOS and MorphOS. String from Paul Rezendes - thanks.
A Mac only browser with some very nice features. You get to buy this one for $29. Tough business model with Safari and Camino now available. Beta versions are free. However this is the only currently being developed browser that runs across the whole MAC range - if you need a single browser interface that spans from the ancient 680x0 Macs to the whizbang OS X world - there is only one game in town - iCab.
iCab/2.9.8 (Macintosh; U; 68K)
Lynx/2.8 (compatible; iCab 2.9.8; Macintosh; U; 68K)
Mozilla/4/5 (compatible; iCab 2.9.8; Macintosh; U; 68K)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
Mozilla/4.76 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
»»» iCab 2.9.8 on the Mac Mac IIsi showing its many masquerading single-click forms. Strings from Sonic Purity - thanks.
iCab/2.9.7 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
»»» iCab 2.9.7 on PPC Mac running OS 9.1. String from Sonic Purity - thanks.
iCab/2.9.5 (Macintosh; U; PPC; Mac OS X)
»»» iCab 2.9.5 on Mac (OS X). This is the default or native Browser ID but as with most non-mainstream browsers they allow easy customisation of the browser id string. String from Robert Johnson - thanks.
Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; iCab 2.7.1; Macintosh; I; PPC)
»»» iCab 2.7.1 on Mac (OS8.6)
Browser supplied with JBuilder. Since its all Java based it may be a development of the origonal HotJava browser which I thought was great (eh!) for its time.
ICE Browser/5.05 (Java 1.4.0; Windows 2000 5.0 x86)
»»» ICE 5.05 on Windows 2000 or NT 5.0 if you prefer. The lack of Mozilla compatability will catch most browser detect functions.
Lightweight version of Mozilla. Runs on Windows only. The windows download of this baby is still around 5MB. That's light. Keeps bookmarks and favorites (and Hotlists for you ex-Opera users) separate, fast to load and spawn new pages, tiny footprint, tabbed (layered) browsing, and now prints well. Our browser of choice on windows. No contest.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9
»»» K-Meleon 0.9 on Windows ME. Latest version of our favourite windows browser. String from Alexander Kozak - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 K-Meleon/0.8.2
»»» K-Meleon 0.8.2 (latest) on Windows XP. String from Eric Bowman - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 K-Meleon/0.8.2
»»» K-Meleon 0.8.2 (latest) on Windows 98SE. Uses Gecko rv:1.5 so the DOM is in great shape but still includes the Mozilla 1.4+ bug that screws up our printer friendly pages. Sigh! String from Alex Wood - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 K-Meleon/0.8
»»» K-Meleon 0.8 on Windows NT4.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 K-Meleon 0.7
»»» K-Meleon 0.7 on Windows NT4. Uses Gecko rv:1.2b so the DOM is in great shape. Printing still sucks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
»»» K-Meleon on Windows NT4. Version 0.6. The use of Gecko rv:0.9.5 leaves it with some DOM limitations that were present in that release.
Mozilla/5.0(Windows;N;Win98;m18)Gecko/20010124
»»» K-Meleon on 0.2.1 Windows 98 SE - very old version. String from Richard Albion - thanks.
The KDE browser of choice for *nix systems.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux 2.6.7-3ajp; X11; i686) (KHTML, like Gecko)
»»»Konqueror/KDE Version 3.2 on Linux Mandrake 10.0 (with a 2.6 no less). String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD) (KHTML, like Gecko)
»»»Konqueror/KDE Version 3.2 on FreeBSD (hurrah). String from Edwin Chambers - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.20)
»»»Konqueror/KDE Version 3.1 on Linux (note this gives kernel version number). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux; X11; i686)
»»» Edited string from Konqueror on KDE 3.1 on Linux Mandrake 9.0 under X windows. String from Andrew Praeter - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.19-32mdkenterprise; X11; i686; ar, en_US)
»»» Fully loaded browser id from Konqueror on KDE 3.1 on Linux Mandrake 9.0 under X windows. String from Andrew Praeter - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11)
»»» Konqueror 2.1.1 (KDE) on Linux Mandrake 8.0 under X windows
Another mostly text browser. Jürgen Starek contibuted this explanation of the difference between Links and Lynx. We have taken some liberties with the summary - errors are ours not Jürgen's.
- Links can render Tables and Frames
- Links does a better job of rendering color
- Lynx integrates better with scripts Perl etc.
- Links has a graphical option.
So there you go.
Links (0.98; Linux 2.6.7-rc2 i686; 132x43)
»»» Links 0.98 a 2.6 version of Linux on Intel'ish box (132 x 43 is screen size). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Links (0.98; Unix; 80x25)
»»» Links 0.98 (text browser) on Darwin 6.6 (Mac OS X 10.2.6). String fom Robert Johnson.
Links (0.95; Unix)
»»» Links 0.95 (text browser) on Linux Mandrake 8.0
The original text only browser(?) - seems like pushing water uphill until you realise that a lot of folks with sight problems use it as well. How many of us think about this group when building HTML pages.
Lynx/2.8.5dev.16 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
»»» Lynx 2.8.5 (text browser) on OS X (a MAC no less). String from Paul Willis - thanks.
Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/0.8.12
»»» Lynx 2.8.5 (text browser) on ? One of three people in the world using GNU SSL rather than OpenSSL (just joking there are five of them). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Lynx/2.8.3rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14FM
»»» Lynx 2.8.3 (text browser) on Win2K - under cygwin or something. String from Neil Thompson - thanks.
Lynx/2.8.4dev.11 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6
»»» Lynx 2.8.4 (text browser) on Linux Mandrake 8.0 loaded for secure browsing
Lynx/2.6 libwww-FM/2.14
»»» Lynx 2.6 (text browser) on ? String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks
The browser that started it all. Groundbreaking stuff in its day. All modern browsers owe their interface to this browser (and probably code also!). Archive version only at the above link.
NCSA_Mosaic/2.7b5 (X11;Linux 2.6.7 i686) libwww/2.12 modified
»»» Version of Mosaic running on Mandrake 10.0 Official. Andrews reckons its still pretty useable but with a slightly old fashioned look 'n feel. The browser could not handle our submisson form and other stuff like div - we guess it supports a pretty basic HTML 2.0 or earlier dialect . String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
mMosaic/3.6.6 (X11;SunOS 5.8 sun4m)
»»» Apparently a special multi-cast version running on a Sun SS20 under Solaris 8. String from Michael Doyle - thanks
The pure form (!!?) of the Gecko browser. Netscape 6/7 etc are just a packaged version of this browser. This is the one that lets you stop those pesky pop-ups (OK so the latest Netscapes have bowed to pressure and let you do the same). The Mozilla roadmap now says the future is Phoenix - oops, Firebird - oops Firefox - yeah. Don't care what they call just fix our 'invisible sidebar bug. They added the bug in 1.4 and seem so taken with it that they are keeping it!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040704
»»»Mozilla browser 1.8 - looks like a nightly build and on XP - clearly enjoys crashes. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0+(X11;+U;+Linux+i686;+en-US;+rv:1.7.3)+Gecko/20040922
»»»Mozilla browser 1.7.3 stock build on Fedora Core 2 with KDE. String from Rick Blake - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5
»»»Mozilla browser 1.6 on Debian Linux. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040616 MultiZilla/1.6.3.1d
»»» Mozilla browser 1.6.3 with multizilla tabbed enhancement on Linux. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0
»»» AOL packaged version of Mozilla browser (they are pushing MSIE now) on the MAC. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90) Gecko/20020502 CS 2000 7.0/7.0
»»» CompuServe packaged version of Mozilla browser (indicated by the the CS 2000) - in this case on a Windows 9x (?). String from Mike Lust - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b; MultiZilla v1.5.0.2g) Gecko/20030827
»»»Mozilla 1.5b with MultiZilla (a super tabbed interface) (string from Robert Martin - thanks)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.5+ StumbleUpon/1.63
»»» Maybe the first sighting of Firebird or should that be Mozilla Firebird(?). Also contains the StumbleUpon free toolbar extension. Mozilla 1.4 on Win XPPro. String from erik ? - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
»»»Mozilla 1.3 (latest and greatest) on Win XPPro (string from Chuang Tzu - thanks)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
»»»Mozilla 1.2 on NT 4.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
»»»Mozilla 1.2a on Windows XP?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i586; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010611
»»»Mozilla 0.9.1 on Linux Mandrake 8.0
The 500 pound gorilla of the browser business. Ho-hum feature set (by modern standards). Lousy W3C DOM support. Minimal CSS selector support. But 80% of the market. Go figure.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95; MSIECrawler)
»»» We feature this string first because if you use the off-line content features in MSIE this string pops-out and web sites are sucked into the cache - we may be talking whole web sites here folks. String from Lynette Maginess - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; AMD64)
»»» MSIE 6.0 64 bit version (comes complete with 64 bit security bugs!) using XP 64 on the AMD64. Hot machine. String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; AMD64)
»»» MSIE 6.0 32 bit version under 32 bit emulation (WOW64) using XP 64 on the AMD64. With FreeDownloadManager (FDM). String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Crazy Browser 2.0.0 Beta 1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on XP Pro with SP2, lots of NETs and crazybrowser which provides tabbed browsing on an MSIE base - a poor man's Firefox really! String from Jonathan Walker - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
»»» Vanilla MSIE 6.0 on XP Pro with SP2. String from Daryl Jamieson - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)
»»» This is the AOL packaged version of MSIE 6.x on Windows 98. String from Ryan Jones - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; YPC 3.0.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; yplus 4.4.02b)
»»» Now is this a string. MSIE 6 on XP Pro with .NET from the British Telecom - Yahoo realtionship. String from Adam Hauner - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)
»»» MSIE 6 on XP Pro with SP2 and every version of .NET framework known to mankind. String from Chris Tout - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Babya Discoverer 8.0:
»»» MSIE 6 on XP. babya adds some features including a PDF maker to MSIE.! String from Invader Zim (right!) - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Crazy Browser 1.0.5)
»»» MSIE 6 on XP. Crazy Browser adds some mozilla features to MSIE.! String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT) ::ELNSB50::000061100320025802a00111000000000507000900000000
»»» MSIE 6 on NT 4.0. Slashdot claims it's a Earthlink customized MSIE, which sends extra
info about your computer encoded in this string. Do you know better? String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; Deepnet Explorer)
»»» MSIE 6 with MyIE2 (now maxthon and Deepnet Explorer is a P2P file sharing and RSS newsreader enhancement. String from Sir Max (wonder if that's an alias) - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.23; Mac_PowerPC)
»»» Yes MSIE does run on the MAC - here's the proof. String from Neil Thompson - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
»»» This string has bit of history. We originally published it as a EudoraWeb string - since it was self identified by a site user as being that. However:
We got some email about this string suggesting that it was not eudora since it had no Eudora in it. To be fair the supplier of the string also voiced some doubt since it was left to the user to identify the string. If anyone can shed some more light on this topic - please email us and we'll publish.
We got some more comment which says it looks so much like a normal Win 2K that we've moved it. The suggestion is that both .NET strings are added when the MS WindowsUpdate system is used. Explanation from Matt Hair - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Windows XP (Home?) - not a security patch in sight. String from Rachael Beale - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FREE; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Windows XP - not too special but what is the FREE (posted to mystery strings also). String from Jean Christophe Olivain - merci.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Windows XP Pro - complete with NET (via Service Pack2). String from Andrew Taylor - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Windows XP
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Windows XP. Go figure the difference from the one above.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS Win 2K SP4. String from Mario Krumnow - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
»»» MSIE 6.0 on MS ME
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
»»»Latest MAC OS X version of MSIE. String from Eric Noel.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
»»»MSIE 5.0 on MS NT 4.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)
»»»MSIE 5.5 on Windows 2000. We think the T312461 is a security upgrade reference?
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
»»»MSIE 5.5 on MS NT 4.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.2914)
»»»MSIE 5.5 on MS NT 4.0 with ASP.NET SDK Beta 2
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
»»»MSIE 5.5 on MS Windows 2000
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)
»»»MSIE 5.5 on MS Win 95
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.13; Mac_PowerPC)
»»» MSIE 5.1 on Mac (OS8.6)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95; BCD2000)
»»» MSIE 5.5 on Windows 95 (BCD2000 = ?).
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Digital AlphaServer 1000A 4/233; Windows NT; Powered By 64-Bit Alpha Processor)
»»» MSIE 4.1 on NT 4.0 on an AplhaServer (wow). We think this is the stock browser that ships with the NT 4.0 release and last time we could not use this browser to update this browser if you get our meaning. String from Jonathan McCormack - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC; e504460WanadooNL)
»»» MSIE 5.0 on a MAC?? The WannadooNL shows an example of a MSIE customisable header. This is configurable when a company choses to redistribute MSIE under their own logo using the SDK.
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; 240x320)
»»» MSIE 3.02 on a Pocket PC 2002. I guess the 240x320 is the available screen size. Goodness knows what DOM this baby supports. Anyone old enough to remember MSIE 3!
Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0d; Windows NT)
»»» Little suspicious that this really is MSIE 2.x. The base version on NT 4.0 as we recall was MSIE 3/4 so you would actually have to install version 2 ...mmmm. But what shipped with NT 3.51? Eric Bowman writes "No browser shipped with 3.51" This proves one only thing conclusively about this string - Eric has a better memory than we do! Thanks for the update Eric. String from Erik - thanks
It's way too late to regain the past glory days but a high function, standards compliant, browser very much the equal of MSIE (and just as bloated IOHO). AOL are back with MSIE - so we guess its just folks who have always used Netscape left. End of an era. Sigh. There is now an experimaental prototype based on Firefox technology with a new interface.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.5.6+
»»» Interesting oddity. A Netscape prototype of a browser based on Firefox info here though you have to register. Apparently no longer available? String from Louise McCormack - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
»»» Netscape 7.2 and still we're wondering what's the (ax)? But we wonder no longer Laurence ? wrote and told us that according to Netscape's documentation it means the browser supports the Windows Media ActiveX Control. So now we know. Many thanks. Original string from Hilde Schlecht - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
»»» Netscape 7.1 Japanese version and what's the (ax) we are wondering? String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020921 Netscape/7.0
»»» Netscape 7 (downloaded from Sun) on a Sun Ultra 60 desktop. String from Joe George - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
»»» NS 7.02 on Power PC MAC using OS X. Latest and greatest (June 2003). Thanks to Eric Noel.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-CA; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
»»» NS 6.2.1 on NT4.0. Oh yeah and an expressed language preference for Canadian English. Well that makes two of us.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
»»» NS 6.2.1 on Windows 2000. Man is this a string!! Note: Officially all the Mozilla based Gecko browsers are supposed to include the 'Gecko'.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0 i686)
»»» This is Netscape 7.02 on FreeBSD. Honestly. Its included for two reasons. Gratuitous publicity for FreeBSD (the next big thing IOHO) and because of what you can do with the user.js file to disguise your browser. A stats guys nightmare. String from FreeBSD buff John Rendlesham.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2
»»» NS6 on Linux. This is the one that works. We get completely different rendering on the Linux version to our MS Windows version of NS6. Is this a mystery - or a bug!!
Mozilla/4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.22-30mdk-i686-up-4GB i686; Nav)
»»» NS4.8 on Mandrake Linux (yes there still maintaining 4.x). String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win95; U)
»»»NS 4.77 on Windows 95.
Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
»»» NS 4.76 on MS Win 2K. String from Steve Alwin - thanks.
Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U)
»»» NS 4.76 on MS NT 4.0
Mozilla/4.75 [en](X11;U;Linux2.2.16-22 i586)
»»»NS 4.75 on Red Hat Linux 7.0 under X windows
Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u)
»»» NS 4.7x on SunOS.
Mozilla/4.7C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP32)
»»» NS 4.7x on SGI IRIX 6.5.
Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win98; I)
»»» NS 4.5 on Windows 98. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {TLC;RETAIL} (Win95; U)
»»» NS 4.5 on Windows 95 (purchased at retail) (string from Mark Odell - thanks)
Mozilla/4.08 [en] (WinNT; I ;Nav)
»»»NS 4.08 on Windows NT with weak security(!).
Mozilla/4.08 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 5.3 IP5; Nav)
»»» NS 4.08 - the last version built for IRIX 5.3, running on an SGI PowerSeries 4D/120 (that
would be 2x16.7MHz R2000 procs. String from Michael Doyle - thanks.
Mozilla/3.01 (WinNT; I) [AXP]
»»» NS 3.01 on DEC ALPHA under NT - wow! You can get it here. String from Jonathan McCormack - thanks.
Mozilla/3.01-C-SYMPA (Macintosh; I; PPC)
»»» NS 3.01 on a Mac. Rave from the grave (NS 3 not the Mac!!). Also probably a Canadian visitor (oh really!)
Browser = Mozilla/2.02 [fr] (WinNT; I)
»»» NS 2.02 on MS NT 4.0. This might now be the oldest string known to man cos NS1 cannot access virtual servers. Contributed by Stanislas Renan.
Stock browser for the BeOS system. No longer active but the link is to the evolt browser archive site (great resource). There is embyonic work on a replacement called Themis. For all you BeOS lovers out there there appears to be two BeOS reincarnations yellotabs Zeta (commercial but shipping) and OpenBeOS (not commercial and not shipping)
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; NetPositive/2.2.2; BeOS)
»»» NetPositive 2.2.2 default browser on BeOS (when you could get it) and Zeta (see above). String from Matt Emson - thanks.
Super-small Windows only browser. HTML 3.2 standard, no Javascript or plug-ins but around 1MB download. Runs direct from CD. Free. 'You pays your money and you takes your choice!'
Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4
»»» OffByOne on windows 2K - the Webster Pro is the ActiveX control the browser is based on. (String from Eric Root - thanks).
Omniweb is a browser for MAC OS X (yeah they got lots of choices too - its not just you PC guys). Free trial for 30 days then a very reasonable $30 (yeah they get to pay for their browsers as well - man they got choices). No doubt about it IOHO the quality of Apple vendor web pages is a cut above the normal. Omniweb since version 4.5 release uses the embedded OS X KHTML rendering engine rather than its own.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) OmniWeb/v558.48
»»» Omniweb 5.0.1 on the MAC. Complete with a new look (can it get better than it was) and workspaces . (String from Paul Willis - thanks).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) OmniWeb/v558.46
»»» Omniweb 5 on the MAC. Complete with a new look (can it get better than it was) and workspaces . (String from Chris Gehlker - thanks).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) OmniWeb/v496
»»» Omniweb 4.5 version on the MAC. Great looking browser. (String from Robert Johnson - thanks).
Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; OmniWeb/4.2.1-v435.9; Mac_PowerPC)
»»» Omniweb 4.2.1 on the MAC (is Mozilla 4.5 closer to 4 or 5?). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; OmniWeb/4.2-v435.2; Mac_PowerPC)
»»» Omniweb latest beta version on the MAC (is Mozilla 4.5 closer to 4 or 5?) (String from Stephen Paulsen - thanks).
OmniWeb/2.7-beta-3 OWF/1.0
»»» Omniweb 2.7 under NextStep 3.x - wow! String from Michael Doyle - thanks. info quote from Michael "NS 3.3 ran on Moto 68k,SPARC uSPARC-II and SuperSPARC I & II, Intel 486 & up, HP PA-7100 & 7100LC processors". So there you go.
Note: Opera V5+ has a free download. Opera 5 and 6 had quirky Javascript/DOM support. Opera 7 sets a whole new (excellent) standard now apparently continued with Opera 8. And we just love that Aqua skin. Watch these strings because you can select a variety of user agent strings with this browser. If at first you don't succeed - try another user agent id.
Opera/8.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
»»» Opera 8.00 (ex 7.60 preview) on XP Pro. String from Michael May - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.00
»»» Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.00
»»» Opera 8.00 (ex 7.60 preview) on XP Pro identifying itself as Mozilla and MSIE respectively. Strings from Jonathan Walker - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i386; U) Opera 7.60 [en-GB]
»»» Opera 7.60 (pretending to be Mozilla running on NetBSD (under Linux compatability). String from Alex Poylisher - thanks.
Opera/7.60 (Windows NT 5.2; U) [en] (IBM EVV/3.0/EAK01AG9/LE)
»»» Opera 7.60 running on XP. Apparently with some nifty voice 'multimodal' capabilities. String from pomel ? - thanks.
Opera/7.50 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]
»»» Opera 7.50 running on Mandrake Linux and pretending to be - itself. String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U) Opera 7.50 [en]
»»» Opera 7.50 running on Mandrake Linux and pretending to be - Mozilla/5.0 (well its almost the same). String from Andrew Preater - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.20 [en]
»»» Opera 7.20 running on Linux (yeah they got lots of choices too) and pretending to be MSIE 6.0 (now we're'confused!). String from Brian Myers - thanks.
Opera/7.11 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
»»» The real thing. An Opera browser pretending to be itself. On Windows XP. String from Robin Lionheart - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows ME) Opera 7.11 [en]
»»» Opera 7.11 running on ? and pretending to be - MSIE 6.0 (which it does well 'cept it corrects some of the bugs!). String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.02 Bork-edition [en]
»»» The infamous MSN version of Opera 7.02 on W2K. Inspired Opera response to a sleazy MS abuse of power (so whats new).
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Opera 7.0 [en]
»»» Opera 7.0 on NT 4.0. Our pop-outs now work with this version so it must be good!!
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.0 [en]
»»» Opera 6.0 on Windows 2000.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) Opera 6.01 [en]
»»» Opera 6.01 on Windows 95.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Opera 5.0 [en]
»»» Opera 5.0 on the Mac (OS8.6).
Oregano is a browser for RISC OS PCs.
Mozilla/1.10 [en] (Compatible; RISC OS 3.70; Oregano 1.10)
»»» Oregano 1.10 RISC OS 3.70 (ACORN).
Small Windows and Linux Mozilla clone. Shareware with $29 price if you like it.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011128
»»» This is apparently NETDIVE Oxygen 1.1 - so there you go. String from Andrew Preater and Mark Schenk - thanks.
Utility from HP to capture and print web pages. To more information use the link above and type 'printsmart' in the search box.
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; HP Web PrintSmart 04b0 1.0.1.34)
»»» HP Web PrintSmart software on ?? String from Eugene Sadhu - thanks.
Not strickly a browser but a web filtering app that rewrites your pages on the fly... for Windows users only. Looks like it uses the GNU bison parser..
Bison/0.02 [fu] (Win67; X; SK)
»»» Native string from Proxomitron - interesting version of windows! String from John McCoy - thanks.
OS X browser now in Release 1.0 for you MAC users. Following explanation of browser geneology from Robert Johnson "Safari uses, and Apple helps develop KHTML (which is what Konqueror embeds). KHTML is in WebCore, which is part of AppleWebKit. AppleWebKit is available to any app on the Mac. OmniWeb abandoned their own rendering engine for AppleWebKit with version 4.5.". So there you go. Apparently the choice of KHTML instead of Gecko was a bit contentious.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1
»»» Safari browser 1.25.1 for MAC OS X. String from Jim Prince - thanks. If you are into this kind of Safari stuff Jim also keeps a full list from the early betas on his site.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1
»»» Safari browser 1.0 for MAC OS X. (string from Yaso Leon).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; es) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85
»»» Safari browser 1.0 for MAC OS X with spanish language variant. (string from Robert Johnson).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/74 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/74
»»» Safari browser build 74 for MAC OS X. (string from Eric Noel).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/51 (like Gecko) Safari/51
»»» Safari browser for MAC OS X. (string from erik ?, Robert Seymour and Ken Zirkel).
One of the Gecko/Mozilla clones this time from HP for OpenWMS.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS AlphaServer_ES40; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030826 SWB/V1.4 (HP)
»»» Quite recent version of Gecko running under OpenVMS on an Alpha (now w e don't see many of them) String from Jonathan McCormack - thanks.
Open Source browser for the Apple IIgs - remember. And you guys all thought Apple had no choices for browsing. They got choices coming out of their ears. This one may be a bit light on Javascript support.
Mozilla/2.0 (Compatible; SIS 1.2; IIgs)
»»» Spectrum 2.5.2 telecommunications program using Apple IIgs System Software 6.0.1 and the Marinetti 2.0.1 TCP/IP stack (remember check between the characters!) String from Stephen Heumann - thanks.
Gecko based Browser from Japan - welcome. You need the Mozilla base then its a 1.5M download - seems to provide tabbed browsing, mouse gestures and a bunch of other stuff.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Sylera/1.2.7
»»» Sylera 1.2.7 on Windows XP. String from Erik Inge Bolsø - thanks.
Text only browser from the W3C. Distributed as part of its libwww system. 'It is historically interesting, since it was originally developed at CERN starting in 1990 and as such was the second web browser ever created, after Tim Berners-Lee's original browser for the NeXT' (explanation from Stephen Heumann).
W3CLineMode/5.4.0 libwww/5.4.0
»»» Version 5.4.0 (current release) Tim Berners-Lee gets an author credit on the site - why is his name not in the UA string! String from Stephen Heumann - thanks.
We created a separate entry for WebTV 'cos its got unique display characteristics (read quirks and bugs).
Mozilla/4.0 WebTV/2.8 (compatible; MSIE 4.0)
»»» WebTV 2.8 on ? String from Neil Thompson - thanks.
Text only browser runs on Linux/BSD and WIN32 (under cygwin) an alternative to Lynx and Links. Has been used to give HTML rendering capabilities to emacs for you emacs fans.
w3m/0.5.1
»»» w3m 0.5.1 on FreeBSD on the Intel platform (read between the characters!). String from Edwin Chambers - thanks
w3m/0.4.1
»»» w3m 0.4.1 on ? String from Erik ?
GNU Utility for downloading internet files using HTTP and FTP.
Wget/1.8.1
»»» Wget 1.8.1 (GNU HTTP/FTP tool) on Debian Linux. This pesky thing keeps downloading our web site. We're gonna choke it off. String from Gerard Creamer - thanks.
Wget/1.6
»»» Wget 1.6 (GNU HTTP/FTP tool) on Linux Mandrake 8.0. Is this the same as WebGet? - no its not! WebGet is available here but seems to do roughly the same thing though I'm sure neither Wget nor WebGet folks would agree with that statement.
Windows utility for checking web sites for broken links (bit like WebAnalyzer).
Xenu_Link_Sleuth_1.2d
»»» Version 1.2d on some windows machine! String from Erik ? - thanks.
Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings (Part II)
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