Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by ntninja
528 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15085241, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by cello, 6 years agoIt works except it puzzles me why its size is so much bigger at 4+ MB compared to other agent addons that are only a few KB in size. I hope it is not consuming more system resources as a result. Will be great if author can slim it down some more.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for your review! As mentioned before the 3MiB+ extra data shipped with the extension is used to generate sensible values for the other `navigator.*` browser identification values. Reading information like operating system, CPU type, device type, … from the User-Agent string is quite a hard thing to do 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) in my opinion definitely outweighs that, by comparison small, price. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 10647288, 6 years agoA wonderful multiuse tool. However, it seems that in the latest update YouTube videos won't load unless set to Default. Went back to previous version, videos load normally again.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15150911, 6 years agoWorks really good, and got me old twitter back!
- Rated 5 out of 5by jmcken, 6 years agoTried it out and it does exactly what it says on the tin. Great for bypassing paywalls and “disable your ad-blocker (so we may cram 864 trackers down your gullet)” messages and so on. Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14923312, 6 years agoGreat! Could revert to the older version of Twitter instead of the crappy new one! Thx a LOT!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15143493, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Behamut, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by peterfnet, 6 years agoThanks for giving me control over my browser experience. User-agent checkingis a lazy way to do "site compatibility"
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15124937, 6 years agoThis works great! I noticed that when I switched it to chrome the preview thumbnail feature worked! I had to take off 1 star because if you switch from chrome to default it will glitch
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eix, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15118851, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lyubava, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15109034, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ttxifu, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Furax-31, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SJoarder, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Galin, 6 years agoEver best UA switcher I have used.
The panel is a bit too narrow, can't display domain when using 'domain specific'. If is good if I can customize the width by myself.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review! Are you thinking about a preference in settings? Or changing the width like how you can change it on other windows when you grab their window border?
The later would not be possible I fear, but the setting would be OK. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15043860, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15054873, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15053659, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15036395, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15039412, 6 years agoWorks like a charm and is open source but it would be nice to add an option to automatically switch to a different user agent on certain websites instead of doing that manually
- Rated 5 out of 5by CaptainOct, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by niko, 6 years ago