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Some Services or Websites like Foxtel will only let you view them in the Google Chrome Browser. Can I make them open in browsers other than Google Chrome?

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Yes, Browsers identify themselves to websites by using a string called the default agent string.

Check in the settings of your browser pn whether you can overide the default agent string. If there is not an option and your browser can use extensions. Search your extension store for a user agent spoofer/changer and install it.

Create a new user string for the web page you are having the problem with and then the following user agent string so your browser will identify to the page as "Google Chrome".

 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Some Services or Websites like Foxtel will only let you view them in the Google Chrome Browser. Can I make them open in browsers other than Google Chrome?

Yes, Browsers identify themselves to websites by using a string called the default agent string.

Check in the settings of your browser pn whether you can overide the default agent string. If there is not an option and your browser can use extensions. Search your extension store for a user agent spoofer/changer and install it.

Create a new user string for the web page you are having the problem with and then the following user agent string so your browser will identify to the page as "Google Chrome".

 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36