User-Agent Switcher

User-Agent Switcher

Simplest way to switch between user-agents in your browser!

What is User-Agent Switcher?
"User-Agent Switcher" is a powerful Chrome extension that you can use to switch between different user-agent strings in a seamless manner. With its use, you can mimic, spoof, or impersonate other browsers, devices or search engine spiders for an improved web browsing experience. The extension also enables you to set specific URLs for consistent spoofing.
Stats
Users: 100,000+
Version: 1.1.7 (Last updated: 2022-09-20)
Creation date: 2020-03-12
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • <all_urls>
Size: 216.06K
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Summary
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User Agent Switcher is simple, but powerful extension. And much easier to use the Internet, regardless of which browser or operating system you prefer. It adds a toolbar button that you can use to toggle between different commonly used user agent strings.

So what’s a User Agent?

A user agent is a small text description of your device that is sent with every web request. Websites can detect the browser you’re using and serve different content - this is why iPhone and Android users see special mobile websites when they browse the web.

With this chrome extension, you can quickly and easily switch between user-agent strings. Also, you can set up specific URLs that you want to spoof every time.

Changing User-Agent allows you to mimic, spoof or fake other browsers, devices or search engine spiders.

Note: Sometimes problems may occur after using a mobile user-agent, and won't switch back no matter what you spoof, you will need to switch the user-agent back to Chrome and clear your cookies for the sites to treat the browser normally again!

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • helpful for web development
  • good for testing website compatibility
  • allows customization of user agent
Cons
  • some broken icons in menus
  • no option to change operating system
Most mentioned
  • good
  • working great
  • useful for web development
  • helpful
  • nice
Recent reviews
mantap
by Robi Sundara Robi Sundara, 2024-01-08

very good
by Adrian Mutugi Adrian Mutugi, 2024-03-25

C00L. By mimicking FireFox it let's Dark Reader properly invert Google Docs by serving the document in HTML format instead of canvas format.
by Fryderyk Kukowski Fryderyk Kukowski, 2024-03-25
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Safety
Risk impact

User-Agent Switcher is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install User-Agent Switcher if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

User-Agent Switcher has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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