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Changing the Google Chrome’s User Agent String

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A simple google for changing the Google Chrome web-browser’s UA (user-agent) string would lead you to a horribly old, yet popular result that would ask you to basically hex-hack the chrome binary [Winks at labnol.org]. Ugh, ugh, ugly for 2010!

For those who don’t know yet, you can start a fresh chrome window with a custom UA using the –user-agent command-line parameter while launching it:

# Using chrome, or chromium -- as you like it.
chrome --user-agent="My User Agent String. Bow to it, statisticians. Kidding."

You can then visit http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ to verify the results of the user-agent property change in Chrome/Chromium.

The command-line parameter, –user-agent, is (not very) surprisingly not documented under the supplied manual page.

Written by Harsh

December 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 am

Posted in Computing Issues,Linux,Software

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  1. What’s sweet about this tip is that you don’t need to restart / create a new session of Chrome for the new UA to take effect. Awesome tip.

    Sathya

    25 Dec 10 at 11:58 am

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