Well having it as an extension would be a good start I think it should be a built-in feature. Chrome/Chromium is not that commonly used, so almost all websites that "browser sniff" will disallow Chrome. And there are a LOT of websites that do this.
Also, there is nothing wrong with browser spoofing, its actually pretty common (in its early days, IE used to spoof as Netscape, Opera has a feature for this, Firefox has an extension for this). Even IE has registry setting that allows you to do it (albeit for every website). The only way to do it in Chrome is to manually edit a .dll file in a hex editor. What do you think? On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Mohamed Mansour <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, once extensions gets implemented for chromium, an extension such as > custom user-agents would be possible. > > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Karim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Are there any plans to have a feature that allows the user to manually >> change the user-agent string to emulate another browser? >> >> There are many websites which check this string and simply do not >> allow you to use the site because you have an "incompatible browser". >> http://turbotax.intuit.com is one such example. >> >> i know Opera has this feature, and there is a Firefox extension that >> allows it. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
