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+5  Q: 

What IE configuration contains "MSIE 8" and "MSIE 6"?

Anyone knows what kind of configuration leads to MSIE 8 report a string which also contains MSIE 6 (stripped down version to minimums)?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

It's no problem to workaround (sniffing education is not necessary, I'm aware of the evilness), but I'm interested in getting some background what's possibly causing this.

I've seen on this on a co-workers home machine too and we couldn't figure out what would cause this.

+1  A: 

Is it possible that IE8 is in compatibility mode? Are there plugins installed?

Andorbal  2010-08-24 20:36:13

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