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How do I fix the user agent in Chrome?
Override the user agent string
- Press Command + Shift + P (Mac) or Control + Shift + P (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS) to open the Command Menu.
- Type network conditions , select Show Network conditions, and press Enter to open the Network conditions tab.
- In the User agent section disable the Select automatically checkbox.
Why does Chrome user agent have Mozilla?
Mozilla is a byproduct of browser wars. AppleWebKit/537.36 is the platform used by your browser. Safari/537.36 was added for historic reasons, where Safari was treated differently.
Why User-Agent is always Mozilla?
It spoofs Netscape by starting its User-Agent with Mozilla/ because web servers were routinely browser sniffing and serving pages with frames – a feature supported by both Netscape and IE, but not other browsers of the era – to Netscape only.
What is HTTP user agent?
The user agent is an HTTP header that web browsers and other web applications use to identify themselves and their capabilities. Your web security software captures and logs user agent data when users browse the Internet.
What is the user agent for Google Chrome?
As time has gone on and browsers have integrated various technology from other companies, User-Agent strings have become convoluted and unwieldy. For example, below is the user-agent for Chrome 79.0.3945.117, which as you can see also includes confusing references to other browsers such as Safari and Mozilla.
Where does the user agent go in the HTTP header?
There is no conventional way of writing a user agent string as different browsers use different formats and many web browsers load a lot of information onto their user agents. When your browser is connected to a website, a User-Agent field is included in the HTTP header. The data of the header field varies from browser to browser.
Why do all browsers’user agents start with ” Mozilla “?
As part of this spoofing, all the browsers start their User-Agents with Mozilla/, like the browsers before them had done. Plenty of other nonsense also results, like modern Chrome’s User-Agent simultaneously claiming to be Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, and ‘like Gecko’.
Why does Google Chrome use user agent sniffing?
On top of those privacy issues, User-Agent sniffing is an abundant source of compatibility issues, in particular for minority browsers, resulting in browsers lying about themselves (generally or to specific sites), and sites (including Google properties) being broken in some browsers for no good reason.”