[Ext] Chrome UA on Google for Firefox Android

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Grey Goshawk
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[Ext] Chrome UA on Google for Firefox Android

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Chrome UA on Google for Firefox Android

Description: Sets the Useragent of Firefox Android to Chrome whilst browsing Google's search. This provides the more feature rich Webkit experience.
Author: Jonathan Nakandala
AMO page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo ... e-android/
Source Code: https://github.com/JonathanNakandala/Ch ... -on-Google
Compatibility: Firefox for Android
License: MPL-2.0

Made this simple addon based on one of the Webextension examples to simply change the User Agent sent to Google Search domains to spoof it being a Google Chrome Android browser.
Google gives an inferior "lite" version of their search pages when browsing via non Webkit mobile browsers.
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Generally it works well though there does seems to be a slight bit of slowdown on Firefox.
It's uses Webextensions so shouldn't break down in future versions.
Give it a look!
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