Many thanks for this helpful plugin.

(1) STRONG RECOMMENDATION TO USERS: Before ever applying the switcher, visit http://www.useragentstring.com/ on your current MicroB. Copy the string from the box at the top of that web page and paste it into a Note or somewhere else where you can find it later. This is the string to use when you want to return MicroB to its original configuration. It is quite likely to indicate versions of Linux, Gecko and Firefox different from those in the string quoted by silvermountain. This might make a difference in accessing some sites. (Most sites won't care. In fact, most sites will still load on a browser where the user agent is completely blank.)

(1b) While you are on that web page, scroll down to the bottom of the analysis. Starting with the word "Tablet", everything is marked "???", meaning that useragentstring.com can not interpret it in any meaningful way. This will also be true for other websites, with the possible exception of some with close connections to Nokia or Maemo. See (3) below.


(2) When you open chrome://useragentswitcher/content/config.html , you see an option called "Default". On the desktop version of the plugin, this brings back your original configuration. In MicroB, the related User Agent field is blank. As noted above, this is OK for most websites, but not for all. It certainly does not restore your original config.

It would be nice to copy the original string (saved as above) into the "Default" User Agent field. However, I had no luck trying to open this for editing. Instead, I added an option called "Original", copying the original string into its User Agent field and leaving all other fields blank.

Anyone who finds a way to edit the "Default" option on N800/Diablo, please post in this thread.


(3) As noted in (1b), websites can interpret the original string as far as the Firefox version, but not the rest. You can make MicroB present itself more cleanly to websites (and possibly gain access to more finicky ones) by cutting out the material that is seen as junk. The User Agent Switcher has additional fields for that material, and it is unclear why MicroB was not configured this way in the first place. I have set up an option with the following fields:
Description: MicroB
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 ......everything as far as ....... Firefox/3.0a1
Application Name: Tablet browser
Application Version: 0.3.7
Platform: RX-34+RX-44+RX-48_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7

I'll edit this out of the post if the config ever causes problems. Your MicroB is likely to have some differences from these details.