randomUserAgent

Posted by agentor | general | Friday 15 May 2009 14:07

randomUserAgent is a experimental Firefox add-on, which changes the user agent of the Firefox webbrowser to a random one.

  • Current Version: 0.2.6
  • Filesize: 8 KB
  • License: GPL 3

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Dependencies:

  • Firefox 2.0 – Firefox 3.6.*

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If you have any questions about randomUserAgent or you found any bugs, feel free to post it in the comment section of this page.

13 Comments »

  1. Comment by Al — 26. May 2009 @ 09:59

    Hi,

    I saw your random user agent add-on for firefox, very nice.

    Our company needs a slight modification of this script that would give common user agent strings in a realistic distribution:

    BROWSERS
    IE7: 23%
    IE6: 15%
    IE8: 5%
    Firefox: 47%
    Chrome: 5%
    Safari: 3%
    Opera: 2%

    OS’s
    WinXP: 68%
    Win2000: 1%
    Win7: 1%
    Vista: 18%
    Win2003: 2%
    Linux: 4%
    Mac: 6%
    Almost all the safari should be on mac, and the opera on linux.

    Could you make this for us in a version to be installed in firefox on a debian linux box, for $100?

    Let me know, I think it should be quick for you. If you don’t want to do it could you please send me the source code so I can do it myself?

    Thanks alot,
    Al

  2. Comment by val — 31. May 2009 @ 19:18

    Hi,

    Very nice thing. But please make UA really random – on every FF instance let there be different UA string (if needed, make it configurable in the options). Right now the UA stays the same on every FF windows i open additionaly.

    val

  3. Comment by agentor — 31. May 2009 @ 20:54

    @val
    I tested that some weeks ago, but unfortunately there were sideeffects. On gmx.de a famous german freemail website, every time a popup appears, you got kicked out and need to login again.

    It’s possible to include this feature optional in one of the next versions, but I don’t reccomend that for normal useage.

    -agentor-

  4. Comment by val — 31. May 2009 @ 23:13

    Hi,

    Thanks, optional is great. One more feature request – possibilities to add or use your own set of UA strings.

  5. Comment by Steve — 7. July 2009 @ 05:26

    Very Nice!

    Please, add change language local of User Agent

  6. Comment by homst — 31. July 2009 @ 21:41

    does not work here. mac osx 10.4.11 firefox 3.5.1
    user agent does not change :-(

  7. Comment by steve — 1. August 2009 @ 00:36

    i get useragents like this:

    Mozilla/5.0 Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de AppleWebKit/525.13 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

    does this makes sense ?
    system is intel mac / firefox 3.5.1

  8. Comment by ulkas — 5. January 2010 @ 17:22

    hello, nice idea
    is it possible to add a random user agent on every refreshed site? every time i visit new site (or refresh old one) it will generate new string.
    thanks and good luck
    ulkas

  9. Comment by controller — 15. January 2010 @ 14:24

    herer is googleanalytics working.
    that sucks !!!!

  10. Comment by looki — 20. January 2010 @ 10:36

    HI,

    I just tried this plugin on Firefox3.5.6 and it seems to dont work properly. By the way, I liked the idea of this plugin, and I liked the idea of the comment number 8, of having a random user agent on every refreshed site, is it possible to see in the next version of this plugin?

    Thanks a lot.

  11. Comment by still waiting — 12. May 2010 @ 09:05

    Hope the update for 3.5.6 will comming soon !!!

    Thanks !!!

  12. Comment by flored — 6. June 2010 @ 22:12

    This is FANTASTIC, thank you!!!

    *re-firms tin foil hat*

    I left a suggestion on the to-do page: yep, auto change every page refresh or every x minutes would be so much better!!

    thanks for your coding.

  13. Comment by Rob — 1. August 2010 @ 03:51

    I like the add-in but on my Firefox browser the add-in will only show different versions of Mozilla. I was hoping it would spoof the other browsers in the way suggested by Al in comment #1 so that the results would reflect the real-life distribution of browsers and OS’s.

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