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Launching Google Chrome with a Vivaldi User Agent
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The following will allow you to test Chrome with a Vivaldi user agent. Shutdown Chrome and start a Terminal (or cmd.exe on Windows), then paste in the code that is relevant for your platform and press “Enter”–you can triple-click to select an entire line.

Testing with Chrome

NOTE: There is little point testing in Vivaldi because old versions already had workarounds for these specific issues and from 2.10 onwards we use a Chrome User Agent string.

Windows

"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.10.1745.21"

macOS

open -a Google\ Chrome.app --args --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.10.1745.21'

Linux

google-chrome-stable --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.10.1745.21'

Examples

Now try any of the websites listed in the Vivaldi User Agent video.

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