Saturday, February 2, 2008

User Agent Switcher

This is a wonderful add-on for firefox that makes webpages believe that you are using in fact MS Explorer. This is really useful with some problematic webpages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

FireFox Alexa Toolbar User Agent Hack for MegaUpload and SexUploader

(taken from http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/18/bypass-and-crack-megaupload-and-sexuploader-download-slots-and-size-limit-with-alexa-toolbar-hack/)

  1. Download and install the User Agent Switcher extension for FireFox.
  2. Restart the FireFox web browser after installation ended.
  3. Go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options.
  4. Then click on User Agents and then click on Add.
  5. Key in the following information:

    Description: MegaUpload
    User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)

  6. Exit by clicking on OK twice.
  7. Whenever you want to download from MegaUpload or SexUploader, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher and select MegaUpload as FireFox’s temporary user agents.
  8. After downloading the files, you may want to switch back to original user agents, by selecting Default.

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