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Questions tagged [user-agent]

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What is Apache Synapse?

My website keeps getting hit by odd requests with the following user-agent string: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Synapse) Using our friendly tool Google I was able to determine this is the hallmark calling-card of our friendly neighborhood Apache…
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Can I switch the User-Agent header for only a single web site?

I have to use a particular web site for work, but this web site checks to see whether I'm using Internet Explorer and, if not, won't allow me to log in. I can switch my User-Agent header using the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin and the web site…
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Why do different sites report Vivaldi's user-agent as different strings?

Site Reported UA https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+user+agent&ia=answer Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.81 Safari/537.36…
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Microsoft Edge User Agent string

I just noticed that while all other browsers seem to have their own user agent strings, Microsoft Edge's seems to look something like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79…
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How do I switch my user agent in Chrome?

I am looking for a way to switch my user agent in Chrome. I have tried User-Agent Switcher for Chrome with only limited success. I really want more user agents, and the ability to add new agents with different operating systems. Are there other ways…
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How to remove User-Agent for Firefox

How to remove User-Agent for Firefox The goal is to remove this header from all web requests, in case you don't want sites to know which OS are you using.
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How do I mask the Firefox browser signature?

Does anyone know of a way to mask the Firefox browser signature, so that it looks like Internet Explorer to the rest of the world? I know there is a plugin to use the IE rendering engine, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using Firefox. What…
Jim Fell
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Spoof email platform/user agent in Thunderbird for privacy?

In Firefox 6, I use the Proxy Tool add on to spoof my user agent and platform strings as part of my effort to improve privacy. Is there an equivalent for emails sent from Thunderbird 6? If so, how do I do it?
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Is there a Firefox extension that prevents websites from detecting what operating system you're using?

Is there a Firefox extension that prevents websites from detecting what operating system you're using? Also, if there isn't a plugin, is it possible to write one? I know I can disable websites from seeing my OS type by disabling JavaScript, but can…
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How can I block a user agent string in IE11?

We are starting to upgrade our laptops to Windows 8 touch screen and we are finding out some of the older websites (Ones we cannot change) detect the touchscreen as a mobile device and will not load the website correctly. We are using IE11 in…
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I anonymized my user-agent, but my browser and OS are still detected

There are sites like whatsmybrowser.org and whatismybrowser.com that detect information about the technical specs of the client. As far as I can tell, this is done using the user-agent information sent by the browser on the HTTP requests. What is…
That Brazilian Guy
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Why do some IE10 browsers get stuck in IE7 mode?

We were doing some investigation into user sessions on our consumer facing sites and came across something that really disturbed me. On an average day, we have ~140k visitors to our sites who bother sending in a user agent string (most bots and…
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Change the Useragent of the OS on Firefox

I would like to know how to temporary change the user agent string of Firefox so that it appears I'm using a different OS than I really am. There's an addon that changes the browser u/a but I can't find one that also changes the OS agent too. Maybe…
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Is there a way to make Vivaldi fake-report the OS to webpages as Windows instead of Linux?

I run Linux and Vivaldi. Various webpages are able to tell that I run Linux, and I'm unsure if this is done from sniffing the User-agent header anymore. Regardless of how it is done these days, I would like them to not be able to tell I run Linux,…
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Chrome extension to change User Agent only in current tab

I've used the dev tools to change the user agent, but that's annoying because it means you need to have dev tools open. I've used extensions to change the user agent, but they all seem to affect all tabs. Are there any extensions that just affect…
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