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by cpeterso 3705 days ago
Mozilla has reluctantly begun implementing some -webkit- prefixed APIs and CSS properties (i.e. mapping the prefixed name to the standard unprefixed name) to improve compatibility for mobile websites that assume all mobile browsers are some version of WebKit (including Blink).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170774
2 comments
kalleboo 3705 days ago
Aaaand we're back to the good old days of "Mozilla 3.0 (compatible; IE)"
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kuschku 3705 days ago
Firefox Mobile has many cases where it even uses Chrome's UA already.
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digi_owl 3705 days ago
Meaning we have come full circle, only being barely better off as webkit is open source...
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