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		stavros on May 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? What if you change Chrome's UA string to Firefox's?

ddorian43 on May 6, 2012 | [–]

he did on the second page and problems started happening

stavros on May 6, 2012 | | [–]

Whoops, sorry, I must have missed that part.

tomerv on May 6, 2012 | [–]

That question is answered in the second part. Changing Chrome's UA string to anything other than default causes errors, so the browsing speed can't be tested.

SquareWheel on May 6, 2012 | [–]

Oops, didn't notice the second page myself.

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