Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by Erin Schlarb
27 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by EarlgreyTea, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by jsh2, 3 months agoIt's a great and easy to use add-on, but it's presets are very old and out dated at this point in time.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12809733, 6 months agoCould use some improvements, like a panel where you check all overriden domains (as if you override imgur.com it will always redirect to imgur.io, making it impossible to undo without disabling the extension) and a "simple mode" that allows switching only between desktop and android UA.
- Rated 3 out of 5by NoahNation, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Gimbung, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by パパ, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by steven, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by fill, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by mathiew, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 10647288, 4 years agoA wonderful multiuse tool. However, it seems that in the latest update YouTube videos won't load unless set to Default. Went back to previous version, videos load normally again.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15043860, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15054873, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15039412, 4 years agoWorks 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
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12985156, 4 years agoNo longer actively maintained. Bug reports are responded to with requests for "donations to motivate the author".
Developer response
posted 4 years agoNo 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!) - Rated 3 out of 5by Cyberknight, 4 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 4 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 - Rated 3 out of 5by none999999, 5 years agoThis is pretty decent. The Playstation default I like as it forces a lot of broken websites (eg. Gmail, YouTube) to work. The downside is adding or changing them does not work. And the CURL and WGET are bad options as they make websites think you're some scraper bot.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the review!
Could you please elaborte what you mean by “The downside is adding or changing them does not work”? I do not unfortunately understand what you mean by this.
Having the CLI tools options available is good for testing for the exact behaviour you describe as “bad”. Some sites also hide/modify content from web browsers, but only deliver them to bots and specialized client software for automated processing – feeds/podcasts are a prominent example of this. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13926692, 5 years agogreat extension but
please add domain exception list, some sites look terrible on big screen and some other force you to open site with app like soundcloud and fb messenger - Rated 3 out of 5by OverdoozeDJ, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Igor Gross Vigura, 6 years agoс прокси не дружит. При включенном прокси и с вашей маскировкой проверяю на сайте http://ip.fri-gate.org/ru/ маскировка не работает данные пк видны FF58
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13307580, 6 years agoThis add-on changed my useragent but also broke other add-ons. External video player was one of them..it worked after I disabled UA switcher. Stable Firefox for Android..Note5.
Edit 1. Another add-on that seems to have abandoned stable Firefox on Android..I've noticed the trend. :-\ This works fine, so far, on Firefox beta. Please disregard one half of the 3★s I gave the add-on. It should be 2½★s since it only works on half of the Firefox browsers I use. - Rated 3 out of 5by leminsc8, 6 years agoSuper teil, wäre nur schön wenn man verschiedene Agent-Profile für verschiedene Webseiten spezfifizieren könnte.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13331399, 6 years agoThis add-on should be perfect if there is an option that allows me to select websites to switch user agent.
For example, I have a following list: "facebook.com, youtube.com". And I want the add-on to only change the user agent when I surf these website. Websites that aren't in the list will not be affected by the add-on.
Could you do it? - Rated 3 out of 5by Alex , 6 years agoNeeds custom color setting for the menu, or a global day/night switch. I'm using dark dev theme and this is what addon's menu looks like.
https://i.imgur.com/XHGScCv.png
P.S. Don't have gitlab account and I'm not a developer myself, so can't test xpi. Firefox 59.0b9 64bit, dark dev theme, win 10 with dark theme.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHmm… Looks like you are being bitten by my workaround for dark themes there…
Could you please test this quick test hack and see if it works better in your case:
https://storage.ninetailed.ninja/index.php/s/uvvqFd6oPIhNFzB
Also please state which operating system, desktop environment & browser version your are using. If applicable also add information about your system desktop theme.
To respond please open an issue on https://gitlab.com/alexander255/user-agent-switcher/issues as I will not receive any notifications when you update your review. Thanks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13130518, 6 years ago