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by alttag 5422 days ago
You mean like http://fafsa.gov ? They tell users to get the latest browser version, and then block them if they're running anything higher than Firefox v3.6. (Complaints are met with "install 3.6" or crickets. Same problem with running any browser from Mac's 10.7 Lion, as they also do OS sniffing.)

On the bright side, removing version numbers may help push ignorant web devs away from version-based browser sniffing toward the more palatable/usable/progress-friendly functionality-based sniffing.