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user agent switcher - huge list


user agent switcher - huge list

By ghostghost | 10529 Reads |
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This is my first article so please rate and comment

this is meant to be short sweet and to the point, so let's go.

if you don't have it already then download user agent switcher for firefox here - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 and then restart firefox

Step 1: Go to this page - http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragent_switcher_agents.txt and save page as whateveryoulike.xml

Step 2: On the firefox menu go to tools - user agent switcher - options - options

Step 3: On the left hand side click user agents, then click import, choose the xml file that you just downloaded and press OK. Press OK again and you're done!

congratulations, you now have an obscene amount of user agents to choose from. go to tools - user agent switcher and choose what you want to be ;)

thanks for reading, once again please rate and comment -flare-

Comments
fashizzlepop's avatar
fashizzlepop 16 years ago

Maybe this should belong on the forums???

Uber0n's avatar
Uber0n 16 years ago

I agree with fashizzlepop; this is good knowledge but not a good article :angry:

ghost's avatar
ghost 16 years ago

I wouldn't rate it poor because it is cool but yes it doesn't belong here. He probably put it as an article so it wouldn't get lost like everything in the forum does.

fashizzlepop's avatar
fashizzlepop 16 years ago

Maybe if User Agents were described more and explained in detail as to there importance than this would be a good article.

ghost's avatar
ghost 16 years ago

It doesnt work for me. It says that it is not in the right format. :(

ghost's avatar
ghost 16 years ago

i found this somewhat useful. maybe "interesting" would be a better word, ive never actually found a user agent switcher very helpful outside of challenges. rated good.

ghost's avatar
ghost 16 years ago

@K_I_N_G - Your reason is actually correct, material like this usually disappears in a day on the forums, but you are right it is to short, and i probably should've explained user agents. So i'll try to consider things like that for future articles

@DigitalFire - One of my favorite uses for the switcher is to bypass the need to be a member to read forum posts on other sites:ninja:

korg's avatar
korg 16 years ago

I'm on the edge it's old news but good for noobs… So rated good.

hellboundhackersok's avatar
hellboundhackersok 16 years ago

Doesn't work for me, says not the right format =/

hellboundhackersok's avatar
hellboundhackersok 16 years ago

Comparing my exported XML to the one you posted, it's not alike at all…

hellboundhackersok's avatar
hellboundhackersok 16 years ago

http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html

Muuchhh better, it works. :o

ghost's avatar
ghost 16 years ago

its useful.

Zer0Man's avatar
Zer0Man 16 years ago

Useful list, on my travels around many other user agent sites I found this searchable site with loads of different user agent lists - http://user-agents.org/index.shtml

Night_Stalker's avatar
Night_Stalker 16 years ago

This article belongs in the forums…

Must I buy a gun and guard the article button myself, and the one the admins use to accept?

Sure as hell seems like it…