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User-Agent Switcher by ntninja

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Review by chris p
by chris p, 8 years ago
Okay, so maybe it's arguably the best add-on currently available for Firefox android but let's be honest here, that's not saying much and it certainly doesn't make it an automatic 5 stars. For starters the icon is broken on android and it should have been addressed in testing. As is, the list of selectable user agents is rather small and quite limited and there is simply no good excuse for such a limitation. There ought to be a custom editable list of user agents to select from that could be expanded upon by the user by manually entering in as many agents as the user needs. All things considered, it is a decent add-on with noticeable room for improvement.

Developer response

posted 8 years ago
Unfortunately the possible ways of interacting with the browser's user interface on Firefox for Android are currently alot more restricted than on desktop Firefox (the fact that I can add an icon to the browser's address bar is already a hack in itself!). As such I had decided to halt all further Firefox for Android development until this is being addressed.

As of Firefox for Android 55 this is finally the case and the first set of improvements (no configurable list yet, unfortunately) has landed in the recently reviewed 1.0.5 version of the extension.

If there are user-agents that you would like to see in the next release in particular (somebody already requested iPad), then please add that to your comment and I'll probably add them. The user-expandable list should be released in not-too-long as well.

Cheers!
522 reviews
  • by Thomas, a day ago
    Cette extension fait plus que modifier le user agent. En effet avec d'autres extensions certains sites internet ne passent pas et bloquent. Avec cette extension aucun problème les sites fonctionnent normalement. Je pense que c'est grâce aussi à BrowsCap.
  • by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 2 days ago
  • by Firefox user 13504717, 16 days ago
  • by ron47ron1, 18 days ago
    excellentai dudes and dudettes
  • by Ghostlife, 22 days ago
  • by winphreak, a month ago
    Works in Zen too! :)
  • by Firefox user 17569951, a month ago
    Needed to use a site that was silently refusing to let Firefox users log in. Used this extension to tell the site I'm on Chrome. I can log in now. 10/10 Would recommend if you find a site that hates Firefox, this works to bypass it
  • by Kim, a month ago
    The only user agent switcher I've found that reliably works. Allows you to apply custom user agent to a specific domain. UI is simple and easy to understand.
  • by 退出党团队远离中共恶魔, 2 months ago
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  • by KLJY, 2 months ago
    The best user agent switcher. Buffering on Youtube magically gone. Compared to using FF by default that YT will buffer every 10 seconds.
  • by Firefox user 18788498, 2 months ago
  • by Joe, 3 months ago
    very good at its purpose
  • by Firefox user 17141374, 3 months ago
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  • by Liamb135, 5 months ago
  • by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 5 months ago
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  • by Lily, 5 months ago
    Firefox on mobile doesn't have a feature to permanently keep "Desktop site" on, sometimes when the website is unloaded from memory and reloaded the website goes back to mobile view which can be frustrating. This extension is pretty much a fix to Firefox's lack of such feature.
  • by Firefox user 10911376, 6 months ago
    Simply doesn't work on mail.com. That was exclusively what I needed it to do, so that's a total failure.
  • by Firefox user 11803080, 7 months ago