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What does EdgeW mean in the Microsoft Edge useragent

Take the following useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SM-G991B Build/RP1A.200720.012; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/91.0.4472.120 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgW/1.0

What does EdgW mean?

  • EdgA means its Edge on Android
  • EdgiOS means its Edge on IOS

(source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/10/05/microsoft-edge-ios-android-developer/)

but what does EdgW mean? Especially given that the useragent states that the user is using an Android device

Solution

  • we believe that this is an Edge WebView (this is just a guess so far) https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector/issues/6636