Some of you need to stop spoofing browsing agents. We need to show people that Firefox is used. This telemetry can help Firefox support and become a big competitor to Chrome and other Chromium based browsers.
Typical Firefox UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0
Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
See browsers started calling themselves "Mozilla" to say "Hey I can do what Firefox can!" (or back then still navigator, doesn't matter. So then sites started checking for "Gecko" (which is Mozilla's browser engine), and browsers (in this case Konqueror, I think) started adding "Hey, I'm like Gecko" to it. Then... it just goes on and on.
The only things not Mozilla in that Firefox UA are X11, Linux, and x86_64. It never stepped so low as to call itself "Mozilla (like Mosaic)".
Iirc there’s a “per site” spoofer that people could use instead, for those sites that require specific browsers. I don’t actually know what it’s called, and my cursory Google search didn’t bring up much of anything, but I do believe I’ve seen them before.
The FF extension is just called "User-Agent Switcher" I believe?
And yes, you can set it blacklist mode or whitelist mode (in other words, "use the extension on every domain but:" vs. "Only use the extension with these domains:").
I'll only switch away from FF if a site is completely broken. I'll try it before resorting to chromium
I forget what specific site it was, but I recently experienced this with some website a doctor's office uses for online appointments. The site straight up said that it didn't work with Firefox and to open it in a different browser. I ended up having to use Edge because I uninstalled Chrome as soon as I had switched back to Firefox.
I'm confused as well, I switched to Librefox wanting to get away from Google all together, cause I have a feeling that browser is just gonna get worse and worse. They're already using your data to show you personalized ads using their services now they want to get rid of ad blockers which will leave open many attack vectors because there's ads that direct you to websites that lock your browser and you have to force the browser to shut down, so if Google wants to go the direction of what manifest v3 is going to be then so be it. Librefox it is. I don't even want use Gmail anymore, im working on switching to protonmail
My local power company's site is broken in strange ways in Firefox. Bars for recent bill amounts are all the same length, usage page throws an error and won't open, a link in the dropdown for a home energy analyzer is completely missing.