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How to Change the User Agent in Google Chrome

May 11, 2023 - Leave a Comment
How to change the user agent in Chrome

Many advanced Chrome users may occasionally need to change the user agent associated with the browser, typically for testing purposes. Whether you’re a designer, developer, student, tinkerer, novice, or expert, changing the Chrome user agent isn’t particularly difficult, but it is hidden within a section of Chrome that most users never interact with; the developer … Read More

How to View a Full Desktop Website in Safari for iPhone

Nov 25, 2014 - 37 Comments
Mobile vs Desktop sites shown in Safari for iPhone

Want to see the full desktop version of a website when browsing the web with Safari on iPhone? It’s easy when you learn how. Most iPhone users like to read and use websites specifically designed for mobile usage, which tend to simplify the user experience and focus attention a bit more. Since many websites detect … Read More

Change the Browser User Agent in Chrome, Safari, & Firefox

Jan 16, 2013 - 14 Comments
Change the User Agent in Safari

A web browsers user agent is how a website knows what type of computer, operating system, and browsing app you are using. Some sites serve different themes, CSS, content, or even different sites to different browsers and OS’s, and many developers often need to change their own user agent to be able to test these … Read More

Change User Agent with curl to Get URL Source Code as Different OS & Browser

Jul 16, 2011 - 3 Comments

Using curl we can retrieve the HTML & CSS source code of any specified URL and even the http header info, but some sites serve completely different content or HTML to different OS and browser versions, this is done by detecting their user agent. Because of this, we can spoof the user agent of another … Read More

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