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KERR
Making moves
Status: New idea

Sometimes for testing or troubleshooting, you want to see if a site would work if you changed the user agent eg. Chrome.

This specific website soft-blocks Firefox, but works fine if you set the UA to Chrome: https://england.nhs.attendanywhere.com/

Unless I'm missing something - in Firefox you have to manually type in/edit the User Agent string, or use one of the baked in device profiles:

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There's some annoyances with this:

  •  The device profiles are device-centric - there's no way to choose by browser/OS etc
  •  The UA field is not resizeable - you can never see the entire string
  • You have to type/guess/copy+paste a UA string from the internet

Chrome/Edge makes this much easier:

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This would be handy in Firefox and would also save having to install a UA-switcher add-on.

Cheers

 

3 Comments
Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

superuser
Familiar face

Please report broken sites to Webcompat.com . There's already a report about that specific site: england.nhs.attendanywhere.com - Firefox is an unsupported browser.

Telling users to spoof their User-Agent string is a bad idea. This makes it look like Firefox has even fewer users than it does, which just encourages more sites to stop supporting it.

Honza
Employee
Employee

Nice idea, thank you for posting!

I created a report, so it isn't forgotten here.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1816668