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Ver­sion 0.6.3 of the User Agent Switcher exten­sion has been relea­sed. The full chan­ge­log is avai­la­ble, but the two main chan­ges in this release are the hiding of the option to auto­ma­ti­cally reset the user agent when the brow­ser clo­ses and the addi­tion of sup­port for update notifications.

The reset option has been hid­den because too many peo­ple were disa­bling it without rea­ding the FAQ and unders­tan­ding why it was ena­bled by default. If you unders­tand the pro­blem and still want to disa­ble the auto reset func­tio­na­lity then just manually set the pre­fe­rence ‘useragentswitcher.reset.onclose’ to ‘false’.

Mozi­lla Update deve­lop­ment is appa­rently con­ti­nuing, but in the mean­time they are not accep­ting exten­sion sub­mis­sions via Bug­zi­lla and I can­not do the upda­tes myself until the deve­lo­per sec­tion is acti­va­ted. This is frus­tra­ting, to say the least, the­re­fore I have chan­ged the User Agent Switcher exten­sion so that it no lon­ger uses Mozi­lla Update to check for upda­tes. Going for­ward Fire­fox should indi­cate imme­dia­tely when a new ver­sion has been relea­sed. I will be making the same change in the next release of the Web Deve­lo­per extension.