Firefox User Agent Switcher

It could be really useful have Firefox and the “user agent switcher”, a plugin made by Chris Pederick, if you are going to develop mobile device web site. That tool allows your browser to be changed with another device and fake the server sniffer.

To install it follow these steps:

1. Download and install the user agent plugin at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59,
2. Restart your browser
3. Go to Tools>User Agent Switcher>Options>Options>User Agents
4. Press Add and insert the device name ie "Nokia n95" in the description field
5. Insert this string: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 in the “User Agents” field.

it's about 6 month I'm using this plugin and I think it has made my life more simple.
Limitation is the not really faithful rendering of the page. That means what you see is not you see on the real device. However this is a useful tool to search, testing, and read the xhtml code of other mobile sites

For mor information go to Chris Pederick's page


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