Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by Alexander Schlarb
358 reviews
- by Firefox user 13669296, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Unlike some other apps I saw suggested from Firefox & others results from Apps search & Google search this 1 actually was to UPLOAD images to certain sites like Instagram (90% of the others were to download images already posted on sites by other people instead of using screenshot apps, almost complete opposite of what I was searching for). And even better you explained how it works & how to use it RIGHT in certain internet servers. That helped a lot more than what I got from Google (lol. Some results were even outdated/impossible to use now). This saved me time & even money because now I don't have to go buy a smartphone just to actually/fully use a website (or 2+).
- by Firefox user 14313457, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5
- by michaelrl100, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Seems to be one of the more frequently updated UA changing extensions. Keep it up!
- by Firefox user 9842646, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Love it that you can add custom strings (just use Ctrl + V to paste). It works very well. It doesn't fool the Firefox add on site, but I see this is a Firefox policy, and the developer has provided a work around. This is a terrific, easy to understand and use add on. It does fool Google and all the user-agent testing sites.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review! Unfortunately this is a limitation of the WebExtension API: The Firefox add-on site is blacklisted from manipulations of extensions due to browser policy. I've added this (and a manual workaround) to add-on's description. - by Firefox user 14298432, 2 years agoRated 1 out of 5Tested this addon against sites like: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
As you will clearly see when you test it for yourself, it does not work.
Set it to windows / IE : here is my test result
User Agent
7.92
242.32
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
as you can clearly see it does not work.Developer response
posted 2 years agoI'm not sure what you are complaining about, but the above is a “Windows 7 64-bit running Internet Explorer 11 32-bit” user-agent. I see nothing unexpected with this result. - by Firefox user 14294484, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5Missing the "append" mode and a confirmation check when you delete a existing user-agent string.
Apart from that, its fine and simple. - by Firefox user 14164189, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14279958, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Auriga, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5SEHR zufrieden, klappt so, wie ich will.
Manchmal allerdings settings völlig schwarz. - by Firefox user 14254075, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by none999999, 3 years agoRated 3 out of 5This 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 3 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. - by fluks, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14074535, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14223092, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13926692, 3 years agoRated 3 out of 5great 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 - by Firefox user 14188736, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Does the job very well.
It would be a nice addition to reset the Switcher when the browser closes.
well done! - by Firefox user 14164651, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Samael, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by 拂晓晨光, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14139186, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by FlyingHorse, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5