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Reviews for User-Agent Switcher

User-Agent Switcher by Alexander Schlarb

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  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 16513930, 4 months ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15503444, 7 months ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Azmisov, a year ago
    Doesn't seem to be designed for easy mobile use

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Thank you for your feedback! Could you please be more specific on how you think the mobile UI should be designed? The mobile UI was not a primary development focus and has been added as an afterthought, so I'd welcome any input here.
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15481638, a year ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15336497, 2 years ago
    安装不上啊
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13989660, 2 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by _ztv, 2 years ago
    The huge size of the drop-down menu.
    The huge size of the extension itself.
    Access to browser activity during navigation.

    What for?

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    > The huge size of the drop-down menu.

    This was added a couple of days ago to compensate for people with high-res monitors where the popup ended up being tiny. I guess it will become another option in settings…

    UPDATE: Reverted to the previous behaviour, the new behaviour is now available as a disabled-by-default checkbox in the extension options.

    > The huge size of the extension itself.

    Since this is a recurring question I've added an FAQ entry to the extension's description. Please kindly refer to that for an answer.

    > Access to browser activity during navigation.

    Used to switch the extension's icon color and tooltip when you navigate from/to pages that have an override set. I could do without that permission but this way it is more reliable and easier to implement (note that extension will be able to see all sites you visit regardless of this permission, it's just more convenient to do it this way in this particular case).
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15154347, 2 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14729746, 2 years ago
    Doesn't include instructions on how to use it.
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14489803, 2 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by piotrjurkiewicz, 2 years ago
    Bloated and slow. Another addon, "User Agent Switcher and Manager", which do exactly the same, is faster and more than 20 times smaller!

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Yet it doesn't spoof the other `navigator.*` properties amiright? Over 90% of the size of this extension is a stripped down version of the Browscap User-Agent capability database that we use to infer the required extra information based on the given User-Agent-String. Not trying to convince you or anything, but I thought an explanation of why this is happening may be in order. :-)
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14298432, 3 years ago
    Tested 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 3 years ago
    I'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.
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14050988, 3 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 12675229, 3 years ago
    Firefox 59.1 64-bit and this addon does NOT work
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13856304, 3 years ago
    navigator.userAgent always returns Firefox, no matter what I choose
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13752750, 3 years ago
    Периодически из-за этого расширения вылезает реклама.
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13150673, 4 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13280490, 4 years ago
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