Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by Erin Schlarb
Response by Erin Schlarb
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for your review! As mentioned before the 3MiB+ extra data shipped with the extension is used to generate sensible values for the other `navigator.*` browser identification values. Reading information like operating system, CPU type, device type, … from the User-Agent string is quite a hard thing to do 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) in my opinion definitely outweighs that, by comparison small, price.
477 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17836905, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DinoC, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16676128, 16 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15214453, 22 days agoPlease, add other browsers, yandex, opera ...etc.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18378994, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18205130, a month agoin my case it doesn't help. on some particularly "especially smart" sites (in mobile versions of which, for example, the capabilities are limited), when choosing the user agent windows, it still says that I’m logging in from my phone.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14146233, a month agoLo use para que el navegador de mi tableta muestre las páginas como un navegador de escritorio. Asi provecho mejor la pantalla, y tengo todas las funciones de escritorio
- Rated 5 out of 5by einwolfsregen, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18143891, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18344149, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by StupidGamer, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Lilynette, 2 months agoI never remembered downloading it I guess support did. It BLOCKED me from doing something(for me specifically it was the CloudFlare human verification). Only after troubleshooting FireFox and removing everything but it and adblock did I finally remove it and the problem was solved instantly. So if you are having problems with something and this is on the browser remove it and I believe unless it is an actual error it'll solve it for you.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18330060, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17909522, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FlorinCB, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aron, 3 months agoUsed this add-on in order to be able to download the Office 365 installer from Microsoft their site. Without the Windows user agent the download/install button would not show...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18276279, 3 months agoBy default, sets a completely insane user agent, mixing up all browsers and os, making website believe I'm using chrome on windows
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15327518, 3 months agoSeems ok but Edge browser is stuck on a very old version.
It would be nice to be able to enable (the agent switch) to a single tab - Rated 5 out of 5by rhld14, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Niels, 4 months agoTried installing it in firefox nightly on android, following the linked instructions. Can confirm it works! (But yes its quite a few weird steps to take) Thanks! ♥
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kuba (kb), 4 months agoSimple, yet useful Firefox addon that meets my expectations.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18228947, 4 months agoThe add on seems to work alright for the most part, but the domain override function doesn't seem to work. Every time I visit a site that needs human verification, I can't get past it even if I have the box checked. I have to go into my extensions list and disable the add on completely to get verified.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Samg381, 4 months agoOverride domain doesn't work- keeps reverting to default useragent despite wildcard domain set. Development seems inactive.