[plug] Changing User agent in Firefox
Arie Hol
arie99 at ozemail.com.au
Fri Jun 22 00:41:11 WST 2007
On 21 Jun 2007 at 19:50, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> Arie Hol wrote:
> > Can anybody tell me if it is possible and if so, how to change the
> > default user agent string in the Firefox browser.
>
Thanks to all for your advice....................
Jacqueline McNally's suggestion made me look at what I was doing wrong...
I normally use the "User Agent Switcher" extension for Firefox. I also
use multiple instances of Firefox in different windows, this way I can
follow different browsing 'trails' for each window - each time I was
changing to IE in order to access the IE oriented web sites - all was
good. Until the next time I started Firefox.
This caused me to raise my original query.
Because of the way I use my browser windows and the sequence in which I
tend to do things..... the browser was always reverting to Mozilla as the
default User agent - because it was the selected "User agent" in the last
window I was using - so I assume that when I closed the last browser
window the browser must have switched back to "Mozilla".
If that makes sense.
A simple change in the sequence I used at the start and end of the
session, seems to have fixed the problem.
If the last window I closed was using IE, then when I start a new session
the first window I open has IE as the default. Likewise for Opera,
Mozilla and Netscape.
I just need to take more care with the sequence I use to close the
windows, when and if I change the "User Agent" strings.
Regards Arie
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