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Change B2G UA
#!/bin/sh
# Script to change the B2G UA
# Based on Dave Hyland's script https://gist.github.com/2656232
# Options: default, fennec, android
# Prereq: adb on your path
LOCAL_PREFS_JS=/tmp/prefs.js
PROFILE_DIR=$(adb shell echo -n "/data/b2g/mozilla/*.default")
REMOTE_PREFS_JS=${PROFILE_DIR}/prefs.js
rm -f ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS}
adb pull ${REMOTE_PREFS_JS} ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS}
ua=""
if [ "${1}" == "fennec" ]
then
echo "Changing UA to Fennec UA"
ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:20.0) Gecko/20.0 Firefox/20.0"
fi
if [ "${1}" == "android" ]
then
echo "Changing UA to Android Stock UA"
ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19"
fi
grep -v general.useragent.override ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS} > ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS}.tmp
if [ "${ua}" != "" ]
then
echo 'user_pref("general.useragent.override", "'${ua}'");' >> ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS}.tmp
else
echo "Reseting B2G to default UA"
fi
set -x
adb push ${LOCAL_PREFS_JS}.tmp ${REMOTE_PREFS_JS}
adb shell stop b2g && adb shell start b2g
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