Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by Alexander Schlarb
Rated 4.4 out of 5
4.4 Stars out of 5
349 reviews
- by Firefox user 12985156, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5No longer actively maintained. Bug reports are responded to with requests for "donations to motivate the author".
Developer response
posted 2 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!) - by Cyberknight, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5Compatible 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 2 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 - by Lonelywolf21, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5Very good extension, but too sad the recent version have stopped working with Firefox. I hope this bug can be fixed if possible. :)
The newest version can be installed on a old version of Firefox (using version 56 myself) by going to this url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549017
Follow the instruction written on the 3rd and 5th comment. 3rd:
"Full Procedure:
Go to about:support in the URL bar.
Open your profile directory.".....
5th comment:
I prefer the temporary fix that I outlined here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkcjoa/all_of_my_addons_got_disabled_and_they_are_all/emggvbx/
A temporary workaround:...
Thanks the ones with the ideas, not me. :) - by Firefox user 14941503, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14923016, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14888363, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Breno Maia, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Ótimo complemento. Por favor faça uma versão para Google Chrome também. Obrigado pelo ótimo complemento.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThank you for your review! Unfortunately a Chrome version of this extension is not planned. You can find my full reply to this, as well as donation link for making this feature happen, at this link: https://gitlab.com/ntninja/user-agent-switcher/issues/46#note_166783499
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Obrigado pela sua opinião! Não está prevista uma versão cromada desta extensão. A minha resposta completa pode ser lida aqui (Inglês): https://gitlab.com/ntninja/user-agent-switcher/issues/46#note_166783499 (Também tem um link de doação.) - by Mr. Openk, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14408966, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14748956, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Add-on is super! Perfectly hides information, except whatleaks ...;) I wish good luck!
- by Patrice, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5So easy to use, unless you have a serious brain disability but in this case you should be in a specialized hospital (yep a read some 1 star reviews = UNBELIEVABLE about why they put 1 star!!!)
A top of the line add-on, strongly recommended!
Yes sure we would like more options in the user agent or more operating system and browsers choices, but it's just to be able to put more mess with websites who spy on us... I got an idea why not an input where we can input a "home made" user-agent ROTFL hahaha ;)
In all case this add-on spoof very well Instagram to upload pictures from your desktop computer, just select any smartphone, reload the page and you are set with the + tab/button at the bottom!!
Thanks a lot Alexander Schlarb, it's very good add-on - by Firefox user 14738539, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Kenapa pas buka layarnya hitam ga ada tulisanya😬
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry. I'm not familiar with Indonesian/Malay. Do you see a black screen? Du you see a permission error? Please write short and simple sentences. This will make translation work better.
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Maaf. Saya tidak terbiasa dengan bahasa Indonesia / Melayu. Apakah Anda melihat layar hitam? Apakah Anda melihat kesalahan izin? Tolong tulis kalimat pendek dan sederhana. Ini akan membuat penerjemahan bekerja lebih baik.
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Maaf. Saya tidak biasa dengan bahasa Indonesia / Melayu. Adakah anda melihat skrin hitam? Du anda melihat ralat kebenaran? Sila tulis ayat pendek dan mudah. Ini akan menjadikan kerja penterjemahan lebih baik. - by Firefox user 12636284, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by stranger195, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5It's easy to use, very intuitive, and lightweight. That's all I care about, it's a damn UA switcher.
- by Firefox user 13853038, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14692895, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Biblio Almafuerte, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by B̅, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14607827, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13302799, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Mikmikmik, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Congrats - Good work ! Got a safe spot in my most essential add-ons. Perfect to test compatibility of all sorts of pages ! Keep it maintained pls. ;)
- by Johnnatan, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5no me gusto al no tener una lista de agentes antiguos pues esa es una funcion muy buena por ejemplo IE6
- by Firefox user 14631641, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5