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The following JavaScript code returns “Mozilla” on all browsers. Why?
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Browser CodeName: " + navigator.appCodeName);
</script>
Short answer: Because people thought that user agent detection (instead of feature (AKA object) detection) was a good idea, so browser vendors started lying in order to compensate.
Long answer: History of the browser user-agent string