Changing Google Chrome user agent string in Ubuntu 11.04

Hello folks. Let’s see today how we can access sites that just accept for example Internet Explorer or where network that just accept the use of Internet Explorer instead of Google Chrome. Many cases, the control of that is made by browser’s user agent string. To change that in Google Chrome, follow the steps below.

Press super key and search by System Settings

In Personal category, click on Main Menu item. A window will be opened like below.

In Menus, select Internet, in Items select Google Chrome/Chromium Web Browser and after click on Properties button . Another window will be opened like below.

In command field change the string %U to something like that:


--user-agent='Mozilla/4.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chrome/11.0.342.1 Safari/533.2'

For example, in my case, this field is filled up with:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser %U

and I have changed to:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chrome/11.0.342.1 Safari/533.2'

Restart the Google Chrome and try to access that site you didn’t have access.

That’s it. See you next time.

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