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by ktpsns 2509 days ago
Changing the User Agent might help to fool a HTTP server, but not the client side scripting, where every browser offers a different API. In web applications such as GMail, this is the relevant piece.

And I confirm OPs assumptions. I also feel this is a tricky way of Google to make Firefox users feel their browser of being "slow". It is basically power abuse. As Microsoft did it in the 90s.