Omtaler for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher av ntninja
Omtale av Cyberknight
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av Cyberknight, 7 år sidenCompatible with Waterfox! Very customisable and powerful add-on, allowing selecting a specific agent for each visited domain. It has two different interfaces, one more "user friendly" and another more "programmer friendly". One problem with this add-on is its size (4 MB file / 21 MB installed). Recently (2020/10) tested it against other much smaller UA switchers and didn't notice any advantages. Downvoting for rudeness on description Page, though.
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postet 7 år sidenThank you for your review! The “huge cache of hundreds (!!!) of files […], which may be completely removed” are in fact used to generate sensible values for the `navigator.*` browser identification values. Parsing information like operating system, CPU type, device type, … is not a simple affair 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) definitely outweighs that, by comparison small, price.
I would like to think that, if you don't need this complete level of emulation, then you may use just about any of the other User-Agent switching extensions because – to my knowledge this capability is unique to this extension.
- Alexander
I would like to think that, if you don't need this complete level of emulation, then you may use just about any of the other User-Agent switching extensions because – to my knowledge this capability is unique to this extension.
- Alexander
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- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 19829301, 42 minutter sidenA good extension is User-Agent Switcher. This extension allows you to change your real device identity to a virtual one. For example, if you can’t access a website from your mobile device because it requires a computer, you can open User-Agent Switcher and select a desktop device type and operating system — and vice versa.
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Faliwim, én dag siden
- Vurdert til 2 ut av 5av Weeky, 10 dager sidenYoutube videos pause and buffer infinitely at exactly 1 minute with this addon enabled, used to not do that
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Rafael, én måned siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Pawel, 2 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av malau, 2 måneder sidenI was whining to Gemini about Google Maps and YouTube being horrendously slow compared to Chromium browsers. It recommended a User Switcher app. I installed this one and HOLY CRAP ! Google Maps in streetview moves at Chrome speed !
- Vurdert til 1 ut av 5av Vykro, 3 måneder sidenThis extension does way more harm than good.
While it does seem to do what it claims to be doing, in practice using this is shooting yourself in the foot.
This is because it appears that with this extension active and set to pretend to be a different browser, websites perceive you as a bot.
On a vast amount of websites you will run into an impassable cloudflare captcha verification screen. You try to solve it - it fails and loops back around. It will keep failing until you deactivate this extension.
On youtube, any comments you leave will be automatically shadowbanned. Presumably because it detects you as a spam bot.
So I honestly don't see much point in using this. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Ana, 4 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Cyberdyne, 4 måneder sidenOn the surface, a simple extension. Underneath, a powerful extension that enables you to view websites often in ways that run faster and disable pushing their APP to your phone. I consider it more advanced power user stuff, so I do wish there was a way to simplify things visually for more people to enjoy the advantages here. Maybe even a built-in database of known good user agents per website.
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Pontiac, 4 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av fgxxr, 4 måneder sidenEasy to use (although a bit confusing if you're using it for the first time) and does as advertised.
The only issue I've seen recently is that videos on YouTube stop playing after a few seconds and an unexplained error prevents the video from playing every single time. Disabling this add-on instantly resolved this issue. I will change the rating to a 5-star as soon as I find a way for the addon to work again without this disturbance, or this issue is patched. - Vurdert til 1 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 19581717, 5 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 1 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 16549430, 5 måneder sidenI have changed to a different agent switcher as this one causes a Cloudfare verifying continuous loop.
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 5 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18285487, 6 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 16926458, 6 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 2 ut av 5av Xenofox, 6 måneder sidenI use this extension for many years now. But sadly the development is very slow. It's very outdated, you're stuck with very old and on many websites not anymore supported browser-versions to choose from like Firefox 134, Firefox 128 ESR, Safari 17, Edge 131. Also no matter which browser you choose from, on browserleaks.com/javascript its still possible to see that mozilla is used (the parameter appCodeName shows "Mozilla". So please ntninja update the extension!
Edit (2025.11.05):
In it's actual deprecated state this browser extension breaks the Cloudflare Bot Challenges.
If a website uses any of Cloudflares Anti-Bot Challenges it will break the website and render it useless. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 19437637, 7 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av ArtchibalD, 7 måneder sidenPlease add a redefinition for Yandex Browser (Window), because I'm tired of seeing annoying ads in Firefox every time I search!
PS: Windows / Yandex 25 [Desktop]: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0 - didn't work - Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av cj, 8 måneder siden