Reviews for User-Agent Switcher
User-Agent Switcher by ntninja
Review by chris p
Rated 3 out of 5
by chris p, 9 years agoOkay, so maybe it's arguably the best add-on currently available for Firefox android but let's be honest here, that's not saying much and it certainly doesn't make it an automatic 5 stars. For starters the icon is broken on android and it should have been addressed in testing. As is, the list of selectable user agents is rather small and quite limited and there is simply no good excuse for such a limitation. There ought to be a custom editable list of user agents to select from that could be expanded upon by the user by manually entering in as many agents as the user needs. All things considered, it is a decent add-on with noticeable room for improvement.
Developer response
posted 9 years agoUnfortunately the possible ways of interacting with the browser's user interface on Firefox for Android are currently alot more restricted than on desktop Firefox (the fact that I can add an icon to the browser's address bar is already a hack in itself!). As such I had decided to halt all further Firefox for Android development until this is being addressed.
As of Firefox for Android 55 this is finally the case and the first set of improvements (no configurable list yet, unfortunately) has landed in the recently reviewed 1.0.5 version of the extension.
If there are user-agents that you would like to see in the next release in particular (somebody already requested iPad), then please add that to your comment and I'll probably add them. The user-expandable list should be released in not-too-long as well.
Cheers!
As of Firefox for Android 55 this is finally the case and the first set of improvements (no configurable list yet, unfortunately) has landed in the recently reviewed 1.0.5 version of the extension.
If there are user-agents that you would like to see in the next release in particular (somebody already requested iPad), then please add that to your comment and I'll probably add them. The user-expandable list should be released in not-too-long as well.
Cheers!
572 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by hf, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by iralakaelah, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fidgeter, 5 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by cabbage, 5 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by LS, 13 days agoID options are outdated browser versions, thus, addon does not work for sites with sensitive "unsupported browser" settings, meaning certain sites will block you.
Either
1. offer up-to-date ID options
2. enable easy "toggle off" or "whitelist" option so I don't have to keep disabling the addon every single time I need to log in to such an abovementioned website. - Rated 5 out of 5by Calico cat, 21 days agoWorked like magic to get around the Google Drive "browser no longer supported" road block.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18268832, 2 months agoI was able to bypass an automatic captcha check on a webiste that I needed to login
- Rated 5 out of 5by Judarist Fullstack Procoder, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17079201, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19829301, 4 months agoA 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Faliwim, 4 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Weeky, 4 months agoYoutube videos pause and buffer infinitely at exactly 1 minute with this addon enabled, used to not do that
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rafael, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pawel, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by malau, 6 months agoI 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 !
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vykro, 7 months agoThis 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ana, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberdyne, 8 months agoOn 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pontiac, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by fgxxr, 9 months agoEasy 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.