Friday, April 26, 2013

Sticky Firefox User Agent

From the User Agent Switcher Help page:

Why does the user agent reset when the browser closes? 

Due to a bug in Sun's Java plug-in the extension automatically resets the user agent when the browser closes in order to stop the browser crashing on the next start-up.
If you are unable to start the browser find the file 'prefs.js' in your profile and delete the line containing 'general.useragent.override' to fix the issue.
If you understand this issue and want to disable the auto-reset functionality create a new preference 'useragentswitcher.reset.onclose' and set it to false.
No support is provided for this configuration.

Of course, nobody is using a Java plugin these days. Correct?


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