Firefox User Agent Addon!

When the web browser is accessing the web server to download the web page’s contents, it sends a user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. User agent FIREFOX add on allows the web server to respond separately to different systems or apply different behavior and features to a different browser.

Below are examples of what you can do using the User Agent Add-On for Firefox:

The I-phone:

Switch the user agent of Firefox, simply add the User Agent for iPhone and change from the toolbar the user agent to iPhone and visit any web site with iPhone service. For the free magazines you have to visit the following url - www.zinio.com/iphone.

The PS3 Youtube Tv:

YouTube service specifically aimed at being watched on TV... www.youtube.com/tv, as announced by YouTube. YouTube says the site is available for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. When you visit it on your computer, you’re redirected to the normal homepage.here is the following hack to view it anyway (HTML’ified):

1. Install User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 for FireFox
2. Set Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00) and Opera/9.23 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Internet Channel/1.0; en)
3. Go to http://www.youtube.com/tv
4. Press F11 (FireFox full screen)
5. Connect your PC to the TV (See how-to videos)

The Nintendo Wii:

This one allows you to acess the wii shop, you don’t need a wii for this one.
View the wii shop in firefox:

The wii uses a browser to communicate. By emulating this browser with firefox, you can surf the wii shop.

1. Open Firefox
2. Install the User Agent Switcher

The previous tech-recipes on the use of this tool is also killer.

3. Click Tools
4. Click User Agent Switcher
5. Click Options -> Options
6. Click User Agents
7. Click Add
8. Description: wii
9. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
10. Click OK X 2
11. Click Tools again
12. Select User Agent Switcher
13. Select wii 14. Copy and paste one of these links into firefox and visit it:

Main Channel:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/W_01.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US Surf the Manual! http://209.67.106.203/en_US/html/manual/USA/startup.html

My Nintendo Membership Link:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/S_02.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US&&state=init

Sonic The Hedgehog Page:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/B_05.jsp?titleId=000100014D414845

Visit the source for more information.


Googlebot 2.1

When you use this user agent you can get into “member only areas” of quite a few sites, Read Rss feeds without signing up ect.


There are many other things to play around with the user agent addon for Firefox just do a search on google and you will find more things to get into. This post was just to explain the basics and get you started. So have fun and enjoy the new areas of the web to explore.


Xml List you can import to Firefox User Agent Addon:
(Does not include Playstation3 or wii) but all others.)
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html

Check your User Agent here:
http://ipchicken.com/
http://whatismyuseragent.dotdoh.com/

Tags: User agent switcher, Firefox