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How to spoof user agent on Android? (self.firefox)

submitted 1 year ago by Irons to c/firefox

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only doable with nightly and beta builds or any ffox fork that has access to custom addon collection

[–] over_clox 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, well that explains why about:config didn't work for me, I'm using official FF.

[–] over_clox 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well now you got me curious too. Apparently the about:config page doesn't work or is just non-existent on Android ☹️

I found this though...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/uaswitcher/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure about:config is only available in Beta and Nightly. Some of the forks have it though, Mull, Fennec, Smart Cookie Web Preview etc.

[–] over_clox 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've gathered that from comments earlier today. Welp, today I learned, thank you for sharing, news to me..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why ? it works on firefox beta. u just add spoofuseragent as string value and type google detect browser in desktop mode and add that string. there s a guide about it on the internet

[–] over_clox 1 points 1 year ago

Okay. Well it's not working for either of my Android phones, and I'm running official Firefox, either the latest version or the last version.

I try about:config in the address bar, and one phone does absolutely nothing but open a blank page. And my other phone apparently likes to interpret about:config as search terms for DuckDuckGo. 🤷‍♂️