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Originally Posted by stuartbe
Thats fine - but....
If you dont pass the browser info to the website it will be unable to deliver the page to you correctly. Java and frames can cause problems if the server is not aware of your browser ver.
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It allows the user agent variable to be changed on the fly. Useful if you meet an IE only page, you can check to see if it works well enough without me having to switch OS.
I wouldn't have thought Java would be a problem if an applet is correctly written, do you mean Javascript?
It may be paranoia, but I have in the past have someone track me through a combination of user agent and IP ranges
