Quote:Life as a Firefox user can be quite difficulty on today's Internet. While it depends largely on the sites you visit in the browser, you may run into "not supported" messages or locked down services. Often, these services or websites are not locked because they do not work in Firefox, but because the developers implement browser sniffing technologies.

They test Chrome compatibility and allow only Chrome or Chromium-based browsers, even if Firefox would display the site just fine as well.
Granted, some sites may not work in Firefox because the browser does not support a specific API or feature, but that is actually very rare in the grander scheme of things.

Firefox users may overcome some of the limitations by faking to be Chrome. This is done usually by changing the browser's user agent. This piece of information reveals information such as the browser engine to the website. By claiming to be Chrome, Firefox would not be blocked from accessing a particular website or service most of the time.

We reviewed several user-agent changers for Firefox in the past. To name just a few: Custom UserAgent String, Chameleon, or UserAgent Switcher.

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