User Agent Switcher, URL sniffer icon

User Agent Switcher, URL sniffer

by Smart Software

v0.9.4.3 Updated Sep 24, 2024 116KiB
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★ 4.31
429 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year ⚠️Requests 1 sensitive permission

Description

Most web pages are fully and completely compatible with Chrome. However, there are some sites that insist upon using a different browser. So, an extension has been developed for Chrome called the Ultimate User Agent Switcher. When a web page suggests using a different browser or upgrading the current one, the Ultimate User Agent Switcher tricks the web site into believing that it is a different browser, often allowing access. And this extension allows you to find all HTTP URLs. (URL sniffer feature) This extension supports Chrome 18 and later. *Enable,disable switcher *Add,edit User Agent list *Filters to apply *URL pattern to apply *View URL sniffer log (type,method,URL,original HTTP headers..) *Export/Import settings *Various options http://iblogbox.com/chrome/useragent
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Reviews (31 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-01
Suman Sharma

does not work on facebook

★☆☆☆☆2023-07-02
Chris Vydas

When active using the updated list of user agents i get website errors "Your browser is out of date! Update your browser to view this website correctly." Clearly, this is using a very outdated list of user agents! Shame on the developer for halfassing it

★☆☆☆☆2017-06-22
Dani II

did not work at all for me and i found one that actually works

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-03
Brian Thompson

Did not work at all

★☆☆☆☆2017-01-30
Kate

I dont want it

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-11
Blood of Heroes (Billy Ho)

Terrible. Used it for Youtube on Chrome and wanted to just have it for the single tab I had open. Worked to the point of changing it to mobile view but after that point could never get it back to regular www view!

★☆☆☆☆2014-08-08
J RR

Sorry, a pretty user interface begging for money doesn't impress me.

★☆☆☆☆2014-04-22
Charles Lewis

Basically doesn't work (Chrome dev channel 36.0.1941.0)

★☆☆☆☆2014-03-18
John Crenshaw

Can't get custom user agent to show up in the options as something you can select.

★☆☆☆☆2013-10-13
Adam Heinermann

Unable to switch to custom settings.

★☆☆☆☆2013-09-10
Bruno Muta Vivas

Didn't work...

★☆☆☆☆2013-04-19
Guillaume Lombard

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2012-11-28
J K

doesn't actually work

★☆☆☆☆2012-11-23
Keith Kyzivat (Keithel)

This did not work at all in MacOS X 10.8.2, Chrome version 22.0.1229.94 The controls on the dropdown to choose user agent, enable URL sniffer, and so forth were unresponsive.

★☆☆☆☆2012-05-24
Anthony Nutting

Hi This did get 5 stars, but after the upgrade to chrome 19.0.1084.52 on linux, this extension does not appear to be working!

★☆☆☆☆2012-05-15
Alvin Brinson

Does not work. Sites still sniff the browser as Chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2012-04-12
Julius

This is fine if you want to use the presets, however you can't customize user-agents. It appears you can, but the changes aren't actually saved. Also, if you edit a preset, it doesn't actually "stick" either -- and you have no way of selecting it from the drop down anyway. This app also does annoying things like puts ads in the extension itself, and begs you to rate it 5 stars, which is an annoyance.

★★☆☆☆2015-03-09
Z

I'm not sure why this has such amazing ratings, but if I wanted to write my own header info, I would. The default choices are limited and it does NOT spoof your OS. Meaning for those of us, who use a User Agent extension, so we can download both the 32bit and 64bit versions of apps... not to mention, various OS versions, including legacies, are completely out of luck with this extension.

★★☆☆☆2012-07-18
Jörg Spieler (SPIELER 360)

There are no Bots in the list.

★★☆☆☆2012-03-08

It did something to my Chrome... even after I uninstalled it, the Instant Search breaks down 2 out of 3 times, may need to reinstall Chrome

★★★☆☆2024-09-25
Gary D (Unhacker)

Kind of a train wreck, but it does allow you to set 'nonstandard' user agent strings, which is very useful for...research. I had to use the 'pattern' feature, it wouldn't work without. Your mileage may vary.

★★★☆☆2024-02-18
choco loco

when i try to post on instagram using android tablet it tells me "Rotate your device to add to your story." Does anyone know how to solve this?

★★★☆☆2023-01-28
perspicillum visum

pros: rich flexible configurations, can use regex matching. cons: not supporting navigator.userAgent and User-Agent Client Hints (sec-ch-ua headers) adjustment which "User Agent Switcher and Manager" can do. overall good extension.

★★★☆☆2015-03-05
Mike U

Interesting Tool, but.... I had to disable it, since it prevented other Chrome Apps installation. I got NETWORK_ERROR, and after disabling this plugin (inside extension manager) I managed to install other Chrome Apps successfully.

★★★☆☆2014-09-04
Menarul A

it works perfectly, but it deleted all my extensions for some reason

★★★☆☆2014-04-04
Andrew Zikov

Everything is amasing BUT one thing kills two stars - cannot enable it only on sites I need. Example - online bank req IE8+. I want UUAS to switch into IE10 mode automatically when I came to that domain. +1'ed and commented anyway. Thank you!

★★★☆☆2014-03-15
tomas hruby

hey, where is your support contacts? ...

★★★☆☆2013-04-29
Scott Marquardt

This is a superb extension EXCEPT that the settings do not sync. That's an absolute must. The entire point of Chrome is the synchronization of everything. Again, though -- a very good extension! Edit: PLEASE make this sync with the account, so that any machine will get the settings for a user. Depending on local machine continuity for cloud-oriented workflow is really retrograde. ;-)

★★★☆☆2013-03-20
Chris Blown

+1 for only this tab function

★★★☆☆2013-03-07
Marcelo Iturbe

Works ok, but problem is that it affects all tabs, would be great if changing of user agent would only apply to current browser tab.

★★★☆☆2012-07-26
David - Emanuel Oprea

It's a good one, but still not the perfect one.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests storage Can store data locally in your browser webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 0.9.4.3
Updated Sep 24, 2024
Size 116KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026