Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by ntninja
Review by Firefox user 13998002
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13998002, 7 years agoThis extension is fantastic! I didn't check all of the settings that are included with the extension but what i needed it for it did superb!
I use Firefox for Android on my 18" Samsung Android Tablet and I get tired of having to check the little box to get the desktop version of websites. Like Google, for instance, I prefer Google's desktop version of their site over the mobile version, especially when the search results load.
I tried to find a way to make the desktop site the default of Firefox for Android and there is an extension that does exactly that but it is incompatible with my device so i did a little thinking outside the box. I remembered there used to be a way to make a web browser, as well as the device it is installed on, appear to a web site to be different than the actual device and browser being used. If a web site detects I am using Linux as opposed to Android which is what I am really using, then it would show the desktop version of it's site since Linux is only installed on a desktop pc while Android (although a variant of Linux) is only installed on mobile devices.
It worked! If need be I can also switch back to Android or just switch it off too! The Windows selection didn't work for me on my Android Tablet but there's other options to choose from. Thank you so much for this extension!
I use Firefox for Android on my 18" Samsung Android Tablet and I get tired of having to check the little box to get the desktop version of websites. Like Google, for instance, I prefer Google's desktop version of their site over the mobile version, especially when the search results load.
I tried to find a way to make the desktop site the default of Firefox for Android and there is an extension that does exactly that but it is incompatible with my device so i did a little thinking outside the box. I remembered there used to be a way to make a web browser, as well as the device it is installed on, appear to a web site to be different than the actual device and browser being used. If a web site detects I am using Linux as opposed to Android which is what I am really using, then it would show the desktop version of it's site since Linux is only installed on a desktop pc while Android (although a variant of Linux) is only installed on mobile devices.
It worked! If need be I can also switch back to Android or just switch it off too! The Windows selection didn't work for me on my Android Tablet but there's other options to choose from. Thank you so much for this extension!
512 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Lily, 3 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17011104, 4 months agoWorks great to fix YouTube illegally slowing/breaking functionality on browsers other than Chrome. However, it completely breaks functionality in Google Docs, making it impossible to type in a document while the add-on is activated. As someone who does a lot of work in docs, this is a really significant issue, so a fix would be appreciated!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18273097, 4 months agoAucun effet sur Firefox pour Android, testé sur Boursobank et Renault, le navigateur reste détecté comme un Android
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18579534, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tony, 5 months agoGreat add-on. You can apply user agent switches per domain. It worked at first try on YouTube. The icon colour will change accordingly whether there is a switch applied per domain or general. Way clearer than 'User-Agent Switcher and Manager' by Ray.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 41444@seznam.cz, 5 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Makezu, 6 months agowow. this is better than User-Agent Switcher and Manager and UI is better. Also that works only single website if want. Great job 👍
- Rated 4 out of 5by Korwin, 6 months agoIt works in Mozilla Firefox 129.0b9 x64, but it is sad that it is impossible to directly edit the list of domains and the User-Agents assigned to them.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Best-HeyGman, 6 months agoUser-Agent Switcher is just great and exactly what I was looking for.
It does exactly what the name suggests, it also works on Firefox for Android and it is Free Software (GPLv3). Also, I appreciate the extensive description. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14379205, 6 months ago