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I recently notice that approximately 17 % of users with ios device have browser with strange user agent. This user agent like the Safari user agent but with slight modification: it does not contain "Safari/XXXX" string.
Example:

normal user agent of Safari: 

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5355d Safari/8536.25

user agent of browser that i talk:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5355d

Can somebody explain me, how it can be? Which browser have this strange user agent?

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The shorter user agent comes when an ipad enters "web app" mode. This means that a phone is parsing the html only using webkit, in full screen mode, not within a safari browser window. Thus only the information about CPU version, webkit version, etc is sent along.

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html

Additional discussion can be found on this very similar post:

ipad user agent changes during use?

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