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So we got to thinking how could we help fix the problem and as usual we had no idea We use server side browser sniffing to serve browser specific page content mostly cos we want to progressively phase out or a least minimise development for non W3. C conformant browsers while pushing ahead with conformant browsers truth be told we used to feel very strongly about this until the great HTML5 betrayal. Now meh. Depending on which browser you use you will see a different Zy. Trax site well at least as far as navigation is concerned. Nuff said. So here, for Opera, Moz and the clones, which unless identified specifically includes Firefox, K Meleon great stuff, Galeon, Epiphany etc., etc. MSIE and Chrome is some info about changing UA strings. Fall 2. 01. 5 Update With the exceptions of MSIE and Chrome limited, primarily for mobile oriented emulation none of the main browser families provide a native method of User Agent a. This is in contrast to past experiences where the the functionality was part of the basic browser Chrome, Opera or provided a workaround Firefox. Opera, Chrome and Firefox all provide one or more add ons or extensions in their on line libraries to enable this feature. All the tested Add onsExtensions provided both canned and custom string capabilities. One can only speculate that this third party trend will continue as the browser families seek to provide a secure and robust in their core products. Opera. Opera 3. 2 Fall 2. The new Opera Web. Kit based identifies itself as Web. Kit, Chrome and Safari and an Opera specific OPRversion string. In short, as almost everything known to mankind. The only way to change the string now appears to be using an Opera User Agent Switcher Extension menu top left of page in Opera Logo select Extensions then search extension site for User Agent. Once installed which, unlike Firefox does not need a restart this extension places a button on the top left of the screen or it can be invoked by right clicking on any empty part of the currently displayed web page. Clicking the UA Switcher button will display a canned list of UAs. Clicking the Options button will allow manual entry of any string which can then be saved under a suitable name and added to the canned list. Opera 1. 1Opera has moved to a Webkit SafariChrome base. Things will change. In Opera 1. 1 you have to make a Panel visible by clicking the lt button at the bottom left of the browser window. Then click the symbol from the Panel and choose Customize. In the window that opens select the Button tab then Preferences and drag the Identify as Opera combo box onto the top browser bar. It provides three options Identify as Opera Identify as Firefox Identify as Internet Explorer. Opera 9. Opera 9 Removed browser change from the Quick Preferences menu instead use Tools Quick Preferences Edit Site Preferences Select Network Tab Use Browser Identification combo box. Opera 7 and 8. Opera 7 provides a feature to change the UA string from the menu Use Tools Quick Preference and select the browser you want to emulate from the radio button list at the foot of the menu. Or if you like lots of clicking use Tools Preferences network then select from the drop down menu under Browser Identification. Opera 9 Removed browser change from Quick Preferences menu instead use Tools Quick Preferences Edit Site Preferences Select Network Tab Use Browser Identification combo box. Notes Opera 7 8 default to MSIE identification which means on our site you will not get our great css menus unless you change to a Moz string and they have worked perfectly since Opera 7. Opera 9 defaults to Opera identification. Even if you select MSIE and we assume Mozilla you get a Opera x. You can remove even this vestigial wow string in Opera 8 but not Opera 7. Opera call this cloaked mode. Cloaked mode can only be configured by using the ua. From Opera 8 there is a nifty file called ua. Opera profile typically System. RootaccountnameApplication DataOperaOperaprofileua. Mozilla or MSIE on a site by site basis Opera info on this topic under miscellaneous. Note if you set a value in the ua. Clicking the menu setting until your fingers bleed will have no effect the value from the ua. The default values in this file are clearly set based on reported site problems. Annotated ua. ini file. Finally with Opera 8 there is also a snazzy feature to allow you to play with Javascript variables so you can pretend to be a real MSIE browser to client side browser detection routines Opera info on this topic. Microsoft Internet Explorer. MSIE 1. 1 Fall 2. Just to keep us all on our toes, MSIE 1. MSIE 8, 9 and 1. 0 F1. Developer Tools but then hides the user agent changer under the Emulation tab its the third item down on left. Select from a canned list or use Custon to set your own string. Global change, affects all web access on all sites until changed back. MSIE 8, 9 and 1. 0The change UA features provided by these versions are extremely flexible and safe to use. To invoke the feature press the F1. F1. 2 Developer Tools. From the resulting window click the Tools menu, select Change user agent string and select a canned string from those provided various MSIE versions, FF, Chrome, Opera and Bing or select Custom. A very comprehensive feature set and relatively easy to use. MSIE 1. 0 adds a further Menu Item labeled Browser Mode IE1. MSIE 7. Unknown. MSIE 6. The basic UA string cannot be changed. Any additional values displayed in the MSIE UA string are defined in the registry. Use Start Run enter regedit then navigate to the following key. HKEYLOCALMACHINEsoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. Version. Internet SettingsUser Agent. Adding new strings here will cause the name of the field not the data content to be appended to the UA string. The basic string is left intact. To change the basic string add if not present the following key. HKEYLOCALMACHINEsoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. Version. Internet Settings5. User Agent. default Mozilla4. Compatible compatible. Version MSIE 6. 0. Platform Windows NT 4. The default value will replace the Mozilla4. MSIE uses. You can add Compatible, Version and Platform strings as shown above and described in this MSDN article. The article also explains how to add Post Platform and Pre Platform values. Warning Messing around with the registry can seriously damage your system and your mental health. Do not do do it unless you know exactly what you are doing. Then think twice. Moz Family. Firefox 4. Fall 2. 01. 5There is currently no way to change the browser string, that we could find, in a stock Firefox browser. SRWare Iron Wikipedia. SRWare Iron is a freeweb browser, and an implementation of Chromium by SRWare of Germany. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. While Iron does not provide extra privacy compared to Chromium after proper settings are altered in the latter, it does implement some additional features that distinguish it from Google Chrome. Development historyeditIron was first released as a beta version on 1. September 2. 00. 8,1 1. Google Chromes initial release. On 2. 6 May 2. 00. Preview Release Pre Alpha of Iron came out for Linux. And on 7 January 2. OS was released. 8On 1. August 2. 01. 0, Microsoft updated the Browser. Choice. eu website in order to include Iron as one of the possible choices. More recent versions of Iron have been released since then, which has gained the features of the underlying Chromium codebase, including Google Chrome theme support, a user agent switcher, an extension system, integrated Adblocker and improved Linux support. Differences from ChromeeditThe following Google Chrome features are not present in Iron 1. RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google. Google search access on startup for users with Google as default search. Google hosted error pages when a server is not present. Google Updater automatic installation. DNS pre fetching,1. Automatic address bar search suggestions. Opt in sending of both browser usage statistics and crash information to Google. Google Native Client. Added features include An ad blocker. A user agent switcher. Opt in blocking of other background communications, such as extension, GPU blacklist, and certificate revocation updates. Increased number of recent page thumbnails shown on the New Tab page. CriticismeditAccording to Lifehacker, Iron doesnt really offer much you cant get by configuring Google Chromes privacy settings. According to others, it is scamware or scareware,2. Chrome to claim Iron solves it. Although SRWare has been claiming Iron is free and Open. Source,2. 4 this wasnt true from at least version 6 on until mid 2. Rapid. Share and blocked by the uploader. SRWare Iron is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6. According to Lifehacker, as of October 2. SRWare Iron was supposedly open source but havent released their source for years. In 2. 01. 5, SRWare resumed releasing what they claim is the source code for the browser, although not stating on their page what version the source code is from. See alsoeditReferenceseditExternal linksedit.