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Exactly. They can suggest whatever browsers they want. Much like how Google suggests Chrome whenever any page with their logo loads. It's not like Facebook is saying if you aren't using on of these three browsers then we can't help you.

They explicitly say "You’re using a web browser we don’t support." Even though this does not mean "we can't help you", I think it is close enough.

Yes, but they don't send you to that page on Chrome or Safari.

Don't worry, it says the same thing on Firefox and Opera also.

The page is STATIC. It isn't being generated based on any logic.

So the "you're" bit is vacuous. They don't mean your browser. They don't [functionally] mean any web browser. The page makes a statement, but we need to interpret that statement IRRESPECTIVE of our considerations of how it is generated/produced.

You cannot say that the page is static based on any URI. You have no idea what is being generated or not.

Needless, ridiculous, digressionist pedantry. The point was (and you can verify this yourself) that the page reports visually identical content regardless of which browser hits it. So it's not telling you that "your" browser is unsupported, it's a redirect target for some other page.

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