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Configuring Watir to use a custom user agent with the PhantomJS driver. The user agent gem has been deprecated, and this functionality is not documented anywhere (obvious).
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watir_phantomjs_user_agent_settings.rb
require 'watir-webdriver'
capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.phantomjs("phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1468.0 Safari/537.36")
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs, :desired_capabilities => capabilities
browser = ::Watir::Browser.new driver
# Quick test to make sure it's set
browser.goto 'http://www.useragentstring.com/'
browser.textarea(:id => "uas_textfeld").value
# => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1468.0 Safari/537.36"
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Can we update the :desired_capabilities on the fly, I mean after we initialize the browser object ?

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