Reviews for Chameleon
Chameleon by sereneblue
185 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by nic, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Powerman, 5 years agoAmazing tool, I love it. A must have. The only addon that also fake javascript. But setting the about:config is not automated. Please make a tweaking tool for this.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, changing about:config settings programmatically isn't possible with the WebExtension API. The best alternative is to reach out to Mozilla to create new APIs for specific about:config entries. - Rated 5 out of 5by DNT, 5 years agoAmazing extension against tracking. Needs other addons to complement it though. Very nice set of features.
A good anti-tracking test is this tool: https://webbrowsertools.com/privacy-test/
With other extensions installed as well aim for a score of 50/100. Then add VPN & fingerprinting protection. You are able to reach 90 and 100. Manually add those points.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the kind words! Some recommended extensions can be found here: https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/wiki/Recommended-Setup Developer response
posted 5 years agoA redesign is planned for v0.20.0 (https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/projects/1)! ;)Developer response
posted 5 years agoRecaptcha doesn't play nice with anything that tries to change your fingerprint. I'm not sure if there is a 'fix' but there is an issue open about this: https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/issues/250- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15280388, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ysard, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15109409, 5 years agoExcellent little addon. LOVE the checklist, very thorough. Would like to see a little popup descriptor for each setting. Inaccurately reported session identifiers and tls fast_start setting as its opposite.
Disable SSL False Start security.ssl.enable_false_start true
Disable SSL Session Identifiers security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers false
false_start is actually disabled, and session_identifiers are actually disabled... not sure whats going on here. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15191256, 5 years agoSuddenly it stopped display notifications to me. I need to hover on the extension to see my spoofing settings everytime i open Firefox. Before it always displayed information about OS, Screen resolution etc
Developer response
posted 5 years agoPlease check if enable notifications is enabled. If it's enabled and it's still not working, please open an issue here: https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/issues. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15182754, 5 years agowow ! impressive, serious work. thanks.
a lot of options, very good documentation, with guidelines and explaination for each.
I will try it for some time and update my review if needed, but I'm pretty confident it will not be necessary :-)
I am now allegedly browsing with chrome on an iPhone with a 1-meter-wide screen resolution, ... for the next hour, at least. priceless.
thanks again - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15164070, 5 years agoCumple con lo que promete, ademas viene con muchas características para la privacidad.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15033282, 5 years agoExcuse me, can I open multiple Firebox browser pages and make each page have a different browser profile?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoUnfortunately, no. The closest you can get to that functionality is to use the whitelist editor and creating a rule for each site you want to have a separate profile for. - Rated 5 out of 5by Avital, 5 years agoUsually i dont like to install any add on that isnt a must have. After testing Chameleon i found out that this is one of the must haves!
I have changed a lot of about:config settings, but i did roll back network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy and etwork.http.referer.trimmingPolicy. I hope those are the 2 most important one to set back to default(?)
Thank you so much!Developer response
posted 5 years agoYes, those two values should not be modified. More info can be found in the wiki: https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/wiki/Headers
Thank you for the kind words. :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14725458, 5 years agoНе на русском, но все ясно. Можно менять браузеры и ос, через 2ip.ru проверяем.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoРусский перевод скоро будет доступен: https://crowdin.com/project/chameleon - Rated 5 out of 5by Wellington Torrejais da Silva, 5 years agoFine! Only small problems like:
https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/issues/18158
. Related to cache and some console alerts at Firefox nighty.Developer response
posted 5 years agoIf you toggled the prevent etag tracking feature, that's intended. If the if-none-match header for caching, it won't work because Chameleon prevents the browser from saving that information for future requests. - Rated 4 out of 5by Lukeskyweb, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13562564, 5 years agoWonderful add-on!
Had issue with "Enable script injection" and whitelisting, which the owner replied to promptly and worked tirelessly to resolve.
Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firedogs, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13360870, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14791020, 5 years agoThis addons have a big bug, sometimes without any reason deactivate the javascript spoof, I add the photos, chameleon is active, spoof my browser but the site can detect via javascript original SO and browser, it's a big problem this. picture:
https://imgur.com/wisOh5O
https://imgur.com/G4aNRnd
With ras this bug is not present, it's only of chameleon, appaire that working and without any reason do not spoof.
I hope you can fix this problem. I see this bug from long time, usually i check many times in the sites if the spoof working e sometimes i find that do not working via javascript.Developer response
posted 5 years agohttps://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon/issues
Can you create an issue here with your settings at the link above?
Have you tried resetting Chameleon's settings and selecting a profile + enable script injection? I'm not experiencing issues with a new install of Chameleon v0.12.0.
EDIT: This was caused by conflicting extensions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14782204, 5 years agoI really like this addon because it also has a good wiki with recommendation regarding the avaiable settings in this addons.
However I have two questions for which I did not found a clear answer:
1. In the Header -> Referer section of the wiki it is noted that two options should not be set in about:config. I assume that setting these options in the user.js is also problematic?
2. If these options are modified (in about:config or user.js) how does this negatively affect the addon?
Edit: Thanks to the developer for the fast answer.Developer response
posted 5 years ago1. Yes, settings those options in the user.js file is also problematic.
2. The options for managing the headers are a workaround for the existing functionality in Firefox. There isn't a way to toggle those settings using the APIs available. If a user changes those options in their preferences, it may prevent Chameleon from setting the header values properly. Firefox modifies the headers before Chameleon can. - Rated 5 out of 5by Craig, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by craigevil, 6 years ago