Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by ntninja
Review by chris p
Rated 3 out of 5
by chris p, 8 years agoOkay, 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 agoUnfortunately 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!
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
- Rated 5 out of 5by Thomas, 11 hours agoCette 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 15 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13504717, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ghostlife, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17569951, a month agoNeeded 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
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kim, a month agoThe 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共恶魔, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18801218, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Алексей Жуков, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18708482, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KLJY, 2 months agoThe best user agent switcher. Buffering on Youtube magically gone. Compared to using FF by default that YT will buffer every 10 seconds.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18788498, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17141374, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17928810, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Liamb135, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hakuen90, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Uthman, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lily, 5 months agoFirefox 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.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 10911376, 6 months agoSimply doesn't work on mail.com. That was exclusively what I needed it to do, so that's a total failure.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11803080, 7 months ago