Thread: Access hidden iPod Touch/iPhone websites
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2008-07-11 , 19:02
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GeraldKo:
I wish there were a simple way to toggle our useragent -- doing it through about:config takes forever.
Benson:
You can go to about:config, do the tweak, and then it will give you a URL in the address bar; that URL, in fact, is the request that actually made that setting change.

So you can bookmark that URL, and have a folder of bookmarks that set the UA. Unfortunately, they do leave you at the about:config page, not back at the page you were on (but reloaded with the new UA), but still a lot quicker.
Benson, we started this on a thread about the iPhone App Store, but I figure it's better to continue that conversation here.

I've been using the URL method that you suggest for months now. When I said I wish there were a "simple" way, what I should have said is I wish there were a quick way. The problem is that it takes my NIT 3 minutes after I click on the URL for changing the useragent before it gets to the about:config page, and then another 3 minutes after I click to make the change. (And that's if I do it off of a restarted MicroB with a cleared cache. Otherwise the browser usually just hangs.) Is it this slow for you, Benson (or whoever else uses this approach to change the useragent string)?
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