Phil A wrote:
 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
> Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gec
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
 
> Now I read this as saying everyone is using a derivative of Mozilla -
> but that doesn't make sense - I'm sure like the rest of the world, most
> of my users run IE by default (since they don't know anything else).

IE says Mozilla because Netscape 1/2/3/4 said Mozilla and M$ wanted to
be compatible with sites designed for Netscape. That long ago became an
unfortunate anachronism.
 
> Or does this mean lines 1 and 4 run IE, 2 runs ???Slurp??? (never heard
> of it) and 3 runs Gecko? That would mean the majority are running IE -
> which fits in with my expectations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
 
> Apart from wanting to understand this, my actual OS/2 is: Can I change
> my browser to report something unique? If so, will that muck up my
> access to sites which might check this info?
 
You can do it manually several ways, like in about:config, or install an
extension to manipulate it with:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/useragentswitcher
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