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288 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Hi,
Doesn't work for me (no context menu).
My setup is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
I wish you could fix this bug , very useful addon that can replace the old IE Tab 2
THNX
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
This addon should tell you what your current user agent string is.. secondly provide an option to set the default agent string so on startup its already modified to your chosen settings.. third option is set agent string for certain sites..so far you need separate extension (UAcontrol) for all those last two making this extension kinda pointless. It doesn't even come with an upto date agent string library or a link to easily fetch the maintained list.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It does work with Firefox 4, but it's not immediately obvious how to access it. Press "alt" and then you'll see the main Firefox menu bar, and then you can find the "Default User Agent" menu item there.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great add-on. Used it on my firefox 3.6; How do I use it on firefox 4.0? Does it even work on firefox 4.0?
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great add-on. Useful when you need it. It would be nice if it had some default ones like it used to.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I use this instead: "User Agent RG". Seems to do what this add-on does but with more options.
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome. Allows a more generic User Agent to minimize tracking ability. Go to http://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php? to see how unique your browser is using various User Agent settings. The more unique your browser info is (higher "1 in xxx" number) = the more trackable, easier to identify a user's activity. And make the prefs.js tweak to retain user agent settings!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
For all of you need to don't have reset the user agent at firefox start up follow this:
Search prefs.js on your system and opening with worpad.
Add this to the last line:
user_pref("useragentswitcher.reset.onclose", false);
With that string you don't have reset on user agent after restarting.
And if after you doing that firefox is not start ( to me and my friends dosn't happens.
anyway you can repair that deleting that line:
general.useragent.override
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
not saving settings. therefore it's useless
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This addon is a great work! It will be absolute perfect if it saves the settings users made. And also with the option for domain-based settings.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I add to my review:
As of today, a strange combination of this addon, plus some themes ( like Stratini ) on Firefox 4.0rc2 totally freeze firefox and crash!
Very Strange
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
User agents aren't saved when the Firefox profile is saved on a networked hard disk. If you're in that situation, this addon is worthless. Move along until it gets fixed.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very good. Does exactly what it says.
MUCH BETTER when you install more agent options, available here:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html
or directly here:
http://techpatterns.com/downloads/download_item.php?folder=firefox&filename=useragentswitcher.xml
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
This thing doesn't provide any functionality that can't be achieved by entering about:config in the address bar and filtering by general.useragent.extra.firefox There is a much better addon called HeaderControl. HeaderControl provides domain based user agent switching. (something that has been requested of User Agent Switcher time and time again) This means you can set the addon to send specific user agents to specific websites. Finally!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good add-on to check to see if your website is working correctly with Google, etc.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It does exactly what it claims, quite well in fact. It's great for tricking those pesky "Unsupported Browser" pages. The only problem it has is that it changes back to "Default User Agent" each time you start Firefox up.
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is on my list of several addons I use for privacy. Simple light and easy to use..
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Does exactly what it say on the tin.
Import this xml list:
http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragentswitcher.xml
Full a full list of user agents for browsers, apps, mobile devices etc.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Developer uses every update as an opportunity to open his homepage (some corporate proxies report access to "personal blogs"). Devs need to learn to at least provide an visible option to turn this off.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Integrates nicely into the Web Developer Toolbar, but can be placed in any toolbar. Works as advertised!
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