When a website wants to identify your browser and what sort of computer or device you’re browsing from, the first place they’ll turn to is the User Agent string. In a surprising move, Google’s ...

The change will make it harder for ad companies to track individuals online. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google is planning ...

A Web browser that identifies itself as a more popular browser. When a user requests a Web page, many websites check the type of browser being used in order to deliver a page specialized to render ...

A client program that is used to access servers on a network, typically the Internet. It may refer to an email client (see messaging system), a Web browser, search engine spider or any other program ...

Google is resuming work on reducing the granularity of information presented in user-agent strings on its Chrome browser, it said today — picking up an effort it put on pause last year, during the ...