general.useragent.override and addons.mozilla.org

[z9385pdi]

If I set the browser to not Firefox, or even if keep the browser as Firefox but the version is set too low, addons.mozilla.org will not allow me to install addons. Is there a way to set user agent override for all sites except addons.mozilla.org so I can still install addons?

[z9385pdi]

I'm asking the developer to add something like:

general.useragent.override.exclude addons.mozilla.org

Of course, I don't know much about the internals of Firefox, so I asked a generic question first. It's complicated to me. It seems even if I changed the user agent, I still can receive updates to the addons I have installed.

Btw, I don't want to use any of the Firefox customization scripts on Github. I prefer a built-in solution by the r3dfox developer.

[krystian3w]

Could you test these preference:

general.useragent.override.addons.mozilla.org

with value:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

It works with that fork at my side correctly.

It can be annoying that synchronize of 3 numbers almost on every 4 weeks or so if you are not using the ESR branch. It might be worth moving this to the user.js file then: https://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file to away edits in standard pref.js in Fox profile.

[jonm58]

@K4sum1 Close this issues

[z9385pdi]

@K4sum1 Close this issues

Why? Where are you come from? Thin air? Ridiculed my posts by a laugh icon and a thumb down. Then demand my thread to be closed?

[z9385pdi]

@krystian3w I got your idea. Use per domain user agent overwrite for addons.mozilla.org. I don't know that it has higher priority than the general user agent overwrite for all domains. Thank you.

[K4sum1]

Going to close this since I'm not sure what to do. If you want me to do something, I'll reopen.

[krystian3w]

The descriptions seems to be understandable and can be used instead of per-domain overrides when masquerading as another browser.

The submitter wanted a key that would deactivate global overwrite without regularly updating UA for add-ons domain:

general.useragent.override;foo
general.useragent.override.exclude;addons.mozilla.org,example.com

(Instead use:

general.useragent.override.addons.mozilla.org;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0)

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Since I have no idea how complicated it will be, I don't insist on implementing it as long as domain key superiority works and there are few UA add-ons that check if the browser will support it add-on (API News MV2/MV3 or ECMAScript syntax).

[K4sum1]

Not sure if I will ever do it, but I'll keep it open.