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Edge Chromium Switches User Agents
I only know that the new Edge switches to original Edge (spartan) user-agent when loading Netflix so it can show 4K content. it's a great smart move.
- tomscharbachApr 24, 2019Bronze Contributor
HotCakeX I think that it is a smart move, too. Because Edge Chromium is not a released browser, UA switching is probably the best (maybe the only) way to tune Edge Chromium for specific websites.
The method now used is cumbersome, though, dependent on pointing Edge Chromium to a manual list of domains and policies setting UA for each of the domains where Edge Chromium reports as either Edge (e.g. domain":"netflix.com","applied_policy":"EdgeUA") or Chrome (e.g. "domain":"facebook.com","applied_policy":"ChromeUA").
Whether that method will be replaced/superseded with something less manual as development moves forward, I don't know.
I don't have much occasion to switch UA's, but Firefox has a User-Agent Switcher add-on that I've used a few times when working in the Linux environment. It is primarily a developer tool, though, not for the likes of me.
- HotCakeXApr 24, 2019MVPI hope they will change this in future or keep it in a way that it won't cause any problems for end users.
there is an add-on usable on both chrome and the new Edge, works like a charm.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher/dbclpoekepcmadpkeaelmhiheolhjflj