Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by Alexander Schlarb
Rated 4.4 out of 5
4.4 Stars out of 5
316 reviews
- by Firefox user 6991270, a year agoRated 4 out of 5This saved my life. OK, almost .... There was this obnoxious site that insisted on IE for no good reason. and my employment mandated access to that site. Was almost going to update my resume :-)
But seriously: good stuff !!!!! - by Firefox user 13809470, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Marek, a year agoRated 4 out of 5For some mysterious reason, the main view of the addon turns black after a few restarts of Firefox for Android. Its background as well as text. Happened repeatedly across multiple FF versions and after reinstalling the addon.
- by recycler.fox, a year agoRated 5 out of 5This is the only UA switcher among those most popular which "per domain" mode actually works per domain and not only for the current session.
- by Firefox user 15029387, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15160329, a year agoRated 2 out of 5Used to work well but Is now breaking sites. Please fix.
Developer response
posted a year agoSorry for the inconvience caused by the recent changes. Version 1.3.4 should now stop the remaining breakage from occuring. If you still observe issues please send some examples of broken sites and what is wrong with them so that I may take a look. Thanks! - by Dan, a year agoRated 4 out of 5Nice addon but the newer versions are breaking sites. Using with 60esr Disqus comments won't load. Forced to revert to 1.2.18.
Update: version 1.3.3 not fixed. Disqus comments on The Hill, Breitbart, and Twitchy will not load. When the addon is disabled or reverted to 1.2.18 they do.
Update 2: No problem, I wouldn't comment on those visiting Daily Beast, CNN, or MSNBC either, especially as a developer :--).
Thanks for fixing, works good again.Developer response
posted a year agoWhile I will not comment on the content of the websites you mentioned, I've fixed several issues on these sites with 1.3.4 that at least made Twitchy & Breitbart work. The Hill I could not test as their page is deploying a security policy that prevents access to all external resources (including Disqus) and hence is broken either way. - by Firefox user 15154347, a year agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15085241, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by cello, a year agoRated 4 out of 5It works except it puzzles me why its size is so much bigger at 4+ MB compared to other agent addons that are only a few KB in size. I hope it is not consuming more system resources as a result. Will be great if author can slim it down some more.
Developer response
posted a year 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. - by Firefox user 10647288, a year agoRated 3 out of 5A 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.
- by Firefox user 13165481, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Tried it out and it does exactly what it says on the tin. Great for bypassing paywalls and “disable your ad-blocker (so we may cram 864 trackers down your gullet)” messages and so on. Thanks!
- by Firefox user 14923312, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Great! Could revert to the older version of Twitter instead of the crappy new one! Thx a LOT!
- by Firefox user 15143493, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Behamut, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by peterfnet, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15124937, a year agoRated 4 out of 5This works great! I noticed that when I switched it to chrome the preview thumbnail feature worked! I had to take off 1 star because if you switch from chrome to default it will glitch
- by Eix, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15118851, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Lyubava, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15109034, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by ttxifu, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15097001, a year agoRated 5 out of 5