| Built-in User agent switcher? | Ky | 12/30/08 1:45 AM | A user agent switcher would solve most of the browser sniffing problems (the recent hotmail issues). Opera's got one that works very fine (You simply have to right click on the page and select <mask as firefox>). An auto-switching feature would be aw |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | karim | 1/5/09 10:07 AM | yep ... i think this is desperately needed. there's nothing wrong with browser spoofing, its a common industry practice (in its early days, IE used to spoof as Netscape, Opera has a feature for this, Firefox has an extension for this). Even IE has a |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | ad0nis | 4/27/09 11:35 AM | I totally agree. A built-in user agent switcher would be a great addition to chrome. Just wanted to put my two cents in. |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | nakro | 4/27/09 12:02 PM | there is no build in user agent switcher, but(!) you can pass the user agent string in the command line for example, this is how to make chrome report itself as IE8.0 on my machineC:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --use |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | jimster | 7/7/09 11:54 AM | Why do I have to fool around with this when Firefox works just fine out of the box? BTW, my screen is set at 1024x768. Jim |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | BOBAH | 7/16/09 5:40 PM | This is lame -- Google docs gives "Sorry, but this browser does not support web word-processing." |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | skprock | 3/19/10 2:12 PM | i do not get solve |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | dazonic | 5/26/10 7:16 PM | Mac: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10" |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | zetabosio | 6/1/10 11:24 AM | I still don't understand where or how to write this --user-agent="what ever you want to impersonate to". Could anyone please explain me step by step? I'm not very good with computers. Any help will be highly appreciated. I'm trying to use www.const |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | xeros | 6/7/10 3:31 AM | Well, "--user-agent" option is usefull but more usefull would be an option to change user agent only for specific web sites (for example there are many banking sites which could be used only with Firefox or Internet Explorer user agent, which work in |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | FreezeWarp | 6/7/10 2:20 PM | @zetabosio - In Windows, open the command prompt (Win Key+R, then cmd.exe) and execute the above commands by copy and pasting them: |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | HT1 | 6/7/10 2:53 PM | its a pretty finite group needing to pretend to be another browser. most users don't care. that said you can use the extension IE Tab Classic to both "pretend to be Internet Explorer" and view the page as ie itself. Useful if you have some installe |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | xeros | 6/8/10 1:25 AM | @ht1, most users just ignore this browser and try another one when they can't login to most used web sites without going to find this question and send a reply so that's why you've got impression that's finite group. And for IE Tab Classic, as you mi |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | rkevinhill | 6/10/10 8:10 AM | "It's a pretty finite group." As Pauline Kael said, she couldn't imagine how Nixon could be elected president, none of her friends could stand him. I prefer to use one browser, though I have several handy. I have no trouble using Chromium on the web |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | vostok | 10/17/10 9:20 PM | https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aafciojnlamllgpkpdkbamkfgbofhgcj# |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | CompuMatter | 11/1/10 7:22 AM | WOW, this is a wonderful solution for LINUX!! Works like a charm. Edit the properties of a Chrome Shortcut and past this: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (com |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | jamshark70 | 1/16/11 1:10 AM | Just a polite question for the chrome developers -- why does a default installation of chrome in Ubuntu impersonate itself as windows XP? I mean, XP? What did you guys do, just hardcode a default string? I kind of feel like that vacuum cleaner guy o |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | jamshark70 | 1/16/11 1:14 AM | Oh, by the way, it doesn't work. /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; U; Ubuntu 10.04; en; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11" %U But http://useragentstring.com still reports the old one. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | carl0s- | 2/2/11 7:00 PM | The problem with switching the useragent for the browser as a whole, is that you'll break other things. For example you'll be presented with dowloads for the platform that you're spoofing. This can be more of an annoyance than you might think. I don' |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | carl0s- | 2/2/11 7:13 PM | Sorry, just checked, it was actually http://sourceforge.net: "By default, we'll show you software that runs on Linux " |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | alwalker57 | 3/3/11 5:04 AM | Yes it worked for me. I am using CA Service Desk Manager and my previous attempts always gave me a PDA type response (minimal graphics etc.) After using the Agent switch it comes through just like firefox. Huhrah!!!! I created a shortcut on my pane |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | alwalker57 | 3/3/11 5:15 AM | OOPS, I spoke too soon. Although the main menu displays correctly it doesn't show submenus correctly. So it's back to firefox. |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | caver_tim | 3/3/11 6:50 AM | you could always ask the website why they do't support chrome? |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | hg3990 | 3/17/11 10:07 PM | @cave_troll It's simple. They could be lazy, inconsiderate, stupid, or just a bunch of azzholes. It's not like handicapped amenities, where you need to actually put effort into it. In fact, you're just making more work for yourself by blocking Chrom |
| Re: Built-in User agent switcher? | David Biesack | 4/9/11 10:48 AM | Note: if this fails for you on Linux, first make sure you have closed all Chrome browsers before starting a new one. I had a Chrome running and this failed. When I closed all Chrome instances, it worked. Do any of the options (see http://www.chromepl |
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