why am showing logged in with like gecko on my yahoo account

What does the term ( like gecko ) mean in my yahoo activity log

Posted on Feb 9, 2017 2:28 PM

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Feb 15, 2017 11:38 AM in response to Randalljh87

That is a "User Agent" string - a UA is sent by your browser to let websites know what browser and version you are using (in case they have a browser checker for minimum requirements for their content)

EXAMPLE = Mac Safari

(Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50


Gecko (software) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)

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