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It looks like the preview releases of IE11 work fine. MS Changed a default value between preview and release versions.

I'm going to choose to apply Hanlon's Razor in this situation.

-How often do people who have to do something to detect chrome/firefox version? Unless you are doing something with bleeding-edge experimental APIs probably, never.

-How often do people have to do something for a specific version of IE? All the time.

Chrome & Firefox have been mostly compatible for the past 20 major versions. IE has yet to make two consecutive versions compatible with each other.

Also worth noting: Firefox and Chrome support more versions of Windows than Microsoft's past 3 Browser releases have.

Again I don't this is necessarily a distinct case of anybody trying to be evil. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem.




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