Change the Google Chrome User Agent

So you're browsing using google chrome in public places such as libraries, universities, cafe, etc2. The internet speed is very slow. One way to overcome is to change the user chrome user agent so you can reduce amount of data need to be transferred. User agent is software (a software agent) that is acting on behalf of a us (Wikipedia, 2012). How to change it? Here's how.

1. Create new Google Chrome shortcut on the desktop.
-On windows Vista/7, click "Start", type "google chrome", right click on the google chrome application, select "Send To" > "Desktop(Create Shortcut)".


2. On the desktop, right click the newly created shortcut, select "Properties".
-At the "Target" field, type
--user-agent="xxx" right after the ".......chrome.exe". See below. 

3. Replace the xxx with user agent string. You can use user agent string below. 


Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; de-de; U0101HA Build/FRF85B) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1  <--  android user agent


Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3  <-- apple user agent


Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9800; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.0.246 Mobile Safari/534.1+  <-- blackberry user agent.


For more user agent strings, visit this website: Click Here


4. Click "Apply", "OK".


Below is the screenshot how the browser will looks like before and after user agent changes.

Before

After