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		Joeri on March 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: What's my browser? Reports my IE11 in modern mode as IE7. I'm guessing it's because of the "trident" and "7.0" in the user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko I've noticed a ton of sites that misdetect IE in this way. MS's attempt to 'improve' their UA string seems to have done more harm than good.

muxxa on March 9, 2014 | [–]

Here's what we use at StatCounter when compiling Global Stats data:

http://gs.statcounter.com/detect

Can you check if that detects your IE11 correctly?

Joeri on March 10, 2014 | | [–]

Yes, statcounter does detect it correctly.

gebe on March 9, 2014 | [–]

For me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.

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