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User-Agent Switcher by ntninja

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  • by Firefox user 15054873, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15053659, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15036395, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15039412, 6 years ago
    Works like a charm and is open source but it would be nice to add an option to automatically switch to a different user agent on certain websites instead of doing that manually
  • by CaptainOct, 6 years ago
  • by niko, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15000242, 6 years ago
    Super, wystarczy podac sie za boota google i mozna przegladac strony bez prenumeraty
  • by Firefox user 14999326, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14989028, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14987796, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13864526, 6 years ago
    The most powerful user agent script I've tried
  • by wailam, 6 years ago
    It help me with STUPID SPOTIFY drop support for non-quantum last version of Firefox
  • by Bash, 6 years ago
    Update "Mozilla Firefox" to version 66.
    (((Screenshot ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557639594.png
    As it is made in another addition
    (((Screenshot ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557639603.png
    There are websites where newer version of the browser is already required...
    "You use the irrelevant version of the browser"
    (((Screenshot ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557641931.png
    And after your updates of addition the situation in the browser does not change in a root, Firefox 61 is already outdated. It would be time to update till 66-67 the version.
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    Обновите "Mozilla Firefox" до версии 66.
    (((Скриншот ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557639594.png
    Как сделано это в другом дополнение
    (((Скриншот ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557639603.png
    Есть сайты где уже требуется более новая версия браузера...
    "Вы используете неактуальную версию браузера"
    (((Скриншот ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_12maya2019g.1557641931.png
    И после ваших обновлений дополнения ситуация в браузере не меняется в корне, Firefox 61 является уже устаревшим. Пора бы обновить до 66-67 версии.
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    P.S. (((Three days later.
    Alexander, thanks for the help in settings, it turned out to dump.
    Screenshot ➜ http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Ashampoo_Snap_15maya2019g.1557929062.png

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Have you modified the list of User-Agents by any chance (*User-Agent Switcher* Icon → *Settings…*)? At the moment new updates to the list will not be merged automatically. You need to restore the default list using the “Restore defaults” link at the bottom of the settings page to get the most recent changes, this will reset any modifications of yours and you'll have to re-add those after the reset.
  • by Firefox user 12985156, 6 years ago
    No longer actively maintained. Bug reports are responded to with requests for "donations to motivate the author".

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    No true! It is actively *maintained*, I'm just unlikely to add new features without sufficient motivation at this point (maintenance ≠ feature development). ;-)
    (Obviously I will accept patches for any of the requested features, so feel free donate your time if money isn't available to you!)
  • by Cyberknight, 6 years ago
    Compatible with Waterfox! Very customisable and powerful add-on, allowing selecting a specific agent for each visited domain. It has two different interfaces, one more "user friendly" and another more "programmer friendly". One problem with this add-on is its size (4 MB file / 21 MB installed). Recently (2020/10) tested it against other much smaller UA switchers and didn't notice any advantages. Downvoting for rudeness on description Page, though.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thank you for your review! The “huge cache of hundreds (!!!) of files […], which may be completely removed” are in fact used to generate sensible values for the `navigator.*` browser identification values. Parsing information like operating system, CPU type, device type, … is not a simple affair as there are no standards at all – one just has to guess based on the COMMENT parts of the User-Agent string. Fortunately the BrowsCap project has maintained a list of matching patterns for figuring out this information since 1997 that is extremely reliable. As such, I will continue using it even if it means bloating the extension size by about 3MiB. The fact that it allows everything to just work out-of-the-box with just a single input value (the User-Agent string itself) definitely outweighs that, by comparison small, price.
    I would like to think that, if you don't need this complete level of emulation, then you may use just about any of the other User-Agent switching extensions because – to my knowledge this capability is unique to this extension.
    - Alexander
  • by Lonelywolf21, 6 years ago
    Very good extension, but too sad the recent version have stopped working with Firefox. I hope this bug can be fixed if possible. :)

    The newest version can be installed on a old version of Firefox (using version 56 myself) by going to this url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549017

    Follow the instruction written on the 3rd and 5th comment. 3rd:

    "Full Procedure:

    Go to about:support in the URL bar.
    Open your profile directory.".....

    5th comment:

    I prefer the temporary fix that I outlined here:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkcjoa/all_of_my_addons_got_disabled_and_they_are_all/emggvbx/

    A temporary workaround:...

    Thanks the ones with the ideas, not me. :)
  • by Firefox user 14941503, 6 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 14856498, 6 years ago
    👍👍👍👍👍👍
  • by Breno Maia, 6 years ago
    Ótimo complemento. Por favor faça uma versão para Google Chrome também. Obrigado pelo ótimo complemento.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thank you for your review! Unfortunately a Chrome version of this extension is not planned. You can find my full reply to this, as well as donation link for making this feature happen, at this link: https://gitlab.com/ntninja/user-agent-switcher/issues/46#note_166783499

    =============== Simplified Portuguese translation ===============

    Obrigado pela sua opinião! Não está prevista uma versão cromada desta extensão. A minha resposta completa pode ser lida aqui (Inglês): https://gitlab.com/ntninja/user-agent-switcher/issues/46#note_166783499 (Também tem um link de doação.)
  • by Mr. Openk, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14408966, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14748956, 6 years ago
    Add-on is super! Perfectly hides information, except whatleaks ...;) I wish good luck!
  • by Patrice, 6 years ago
    So easy to use, unless you have a serious brain disability but in this case you should be in a specialized hospital (yep a read some 1 star reviews = UNBELIEVABLE about why they put 1 star!!!)

    A top of the line add-on, strongly recommended!

    Yes sure we would like more options in the user agent or more operating system and browsers choices, but it's just to be able to put more mess with websites who spy on us... I got an idea why not an input where we can input a "home made" user-agent ROTFL hahaha ;)

    In all case this add-on spoof very well Instagram to upload pictures from your desktop computer, just select any smartphone, reload the page and you are set with the + tab/button at the bottom!!

    Thanks a lot Alexander Schlarb, it's very good add-on

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thanks for the nice comment! :-)