How to spoof another browser using Firefox

Apr 28, 2009

How to spoof another browser using Firefox

This is a guide on how to make firefox look like another browser to the server you're using

If you do not have firefox download it from the link above

When you send a request to a server, all browsers send along a string similar to this:

the "User-Agent string tells the server the version of you browser and what your operating system is. This is sometimes used to determine which downloads will you be needing (ie. linux or windows version) But sometimes, you don't want the server to know what your system and/or browser is, so what do you do?

that is what this tutorial is for!

First, type about:config into your address bar.

Second,

Then it will ask for what the name of the string will be, type in:

general.useragent.override

The last step is to add what user-string you want your browser to send when it's requesting content from a server. for example, the string for google's web spiders is :

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

or you can type something random in, like

none of your business