How Can I Save User Agent Change In Developer Options


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I'm rather perplexed as to why I have to change the default user agent to something other than the default edge user agent for this one site: MSNBC Live: Stream the latest TV shows As soon as I change it to say google chrome browser the live feed stream functions properly, my issue is the fact that I don't know how to save the desired user agent in the developer options area. I'm enclosing a screenshot of what I'm referring to, I feel like there must be a way to save my changed setting.
 
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You can try creating a 'custom shortcut' to edge with the following Target line to start Edge with the particular User Agent string you want.

eg: Using the default profile & User Agent "Chrome - Windows"
Code: 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="default" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/%s Safari/537.36"

nb: Currently, in Edge Developer Tools, within the NetworkConditions dropdown, the UA string for "Chrome - Windows" is shown as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/%s Safari/537.36".
Also, note that the string will apply to all pages you open in Edge using this particular shortcut".
 

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das10 said:
You can try creating a 'custom shortcut' to edge with the following Target line to start Edge with the particular User Agent string you want.

eg: Using the default profile & User Agent "Chrome - Windows"
Code: 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="default" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/%s Safari/537.36"

nb: Currently, in Edge Developer Tools, within the NetworkConditions dropdown, the UA string for "Chrome - Windows" is shown as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/%s Safari/537.36".
Also, note that the string will apply to all pages you open in Edge using this particular shortcut".
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das10,
Thanks so much for your informative reply, my main issue with applying the script that you have included in your reply is where & how to apply it. I'm thinking I could utilize an extension such as tampermonkey to make the process easier for a person like me that isn't that familiar with scripts.
 

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You can use that code to create a new Shortcut on the Desktop for example, & in the "Type the location of the item" enter that "whole code".

Create Shortcut.png
 

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das10,
Thanks for sharing this follow up information concerning the code.
 

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