Advertisement The User Agent Switcher extension is a secret agent in disguise for Firefox. You can put on your IE hat and slip past virtual bouncers into Internet Explorer-only websites; blend in as an iPhone and explore the web’s mobile underbelly; or flash your fake Google ID card and get the V.I.P. User Agent Switcher is simple, yet powerful. It adds a toolbar button that you can use to toggle between different user agent strings.

User Agent Switcher overrides Firefox’s default user agent, tricking websites into thinking you’re using a different browser. What’s a User Agent? Your browser sends its user agent, which contains the browser’s version and operating system, whenever you connect to a website. 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. Gta 4 Rgsc.exe Cannot Start.

Getting Started Like most Firefox add-ons, is available in Firefox’s add-ons gallery. After it’s installed, you can right-click your toolbar, select Customize and put the User Agent Switcher button anywhere you like. Crash Internet Explorer’s Party It’s happened to all of us, although it happens less often these days. You click a link expecting to see a web page, but you’re locked out. “This website requires Internet Explorer,” it says. Does it really require Internet Explorer?

With the User Agent Switcher extension, you can disguise Firefox as Internet Explorer and slip right in. Here’s a website from the IE-only hall of shame: Yuck. Let’s click the User Agent Switcher menu and pretend to be Internet Explorer. This won’t help if the website really is IE-only. Websites that use ActiveX controls are out; those only run in Internet Explorer. Try the if you encounter one of those sites — IE Tab runs Internet Explorer itself in a Firefox tab.

README.md XML for UserAgentSwitcher. This XML is for User Agent Switcher that Add-ons for Firefox and Chrome. My Blog Entry: http://blog.cgfm.jp/garyu/archives/2357.