maxthon's useragent string is inconsistent

I was wondering why it did no longer work ? 

thank you for the explanation, hopefuly devs will fix it.

Really? I'm pretty sure i had it working just the other day on 4.9 on FB and didn't have an issue? will check later

He's fixed it now...

It was previously not working until he worked around the issue above.

" but if it visits other sites, it reports its useragent as being

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.9.3.1000 Chrome/39.0.2146.0 Safari/537.36" "

 

Could you provide some examples for this "other sites"? Then I can have a try.

Thanks and looking forward to your reply.

5 hours ago, BugMiss006 said:

Could you provide some examples for this "other sites"? Then I can have a try.

Other sites that aren't google or facebook, eg maxthon.com or forum.

See attached images.

The UA as set in settings is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.9.3.1000 Chrome/39.0.2146.0 Safari/537.36

This matches what is displayed on the mx forum image, but google changes the chrome version to 49.x and adds WOW64 to the system string.

I don't think this is unusual. Browsers are doing this more and more to ensure sites that are designed for a particular browser/platform work on another. Apparently android spoofs a Safari UA to ensure site compatibility.

Seeing this is a desktop browser, it would be nice to have some more options to play with when it comes to advanced settings such as this.

Use one of the UAs here

http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?/bug-tracker/general-support/updated-user-agent-r91/

6 hours ago, Magdalene said:

Use one of the UAs here

Won't work. The problem is that Maxthon ignores the defined UA and spoofs another preset one for particular sites.

See the images above.