Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by ntninja
Review by Cyberknight
Rated 3 out of 5
by Cyberknight, 6 years agoCompatible 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 agoThank 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
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
533 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by iM, 10 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheK0tYaRa, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Adrien, 14 days agoPlante instantanément Firefox mobile.
Instantly crashes Firefox mobile. - Rated 3 out of 5by Synetech, 18 days agoThis used to be the most functional useragent-switcher (even if the UI/UX was left wanting), but even this doesn't seem to work anymore. 😕
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14946084, 21 days agoAlthough this extension doesn't solve my issue completely (hating how Facebook looks and works), I am able to easily convince FB that my laptop is a mobile device which makes it more tolerable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19031318, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 猫jan, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jorge, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by WhoAboutYT, 2 months agoI love it, I use the user-agent switcher because sites like Roblox believe firefox is "suspicious" and will serve you 10 Captchas if you are on Firefox
- Rated 1 out of 5by Yeko, 2 months agoDoes not work at all. Sites still see my browser's original version string.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FTMLIFESTYLE, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Retromania, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18841127, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Thomas, 3 months agoL'idée est bonne mais le gros défaut est que les captchas ne passent pas car le ua dans les iframes n'est pas modifié. Dommage.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13504717, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ghostlife, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17569951, 4 months agoEdit: No longer works anymore. Sites that block Firefox users are blocking them again even with this extension set to tell the site I'm on Chrome. :(
Needed to use a site that was silently refusing to let Firefox users log in. Used this extension to tell the site I'm on Chrome. I can log in now. 10/10 Would recommend if you find a site that hates Firefox, this works to bypass it - Rated 5 out of 5by Kim, 4 months agoThe only user agent switcher I've found that reliably works. Allows you to apply custom user agent to a specific domain. UI is simple and easy to understand.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18801218, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Алексей Жуков, 5 months ago