akweteco01: Change Safari's User Agent to Google Chrome

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Change Safari's User Agent to Google Chrome

Google Maps sometimes will take an interminably long time to load in Safari. I have found that changing Safari's User Agent to Google Chrome consistently fixes this problem, resulting in snappy loading of Google Map web pages.

Changing the User Agent is a cumbersome process, involving making sure the Develop menu is visible in Safari's menu bar, retrieving Google Chrome's User Agent string from the Internet or a saved file, and then entering the string in the User Agent dialog window.

This hint covers how to use AppleScript to simplify this. The following AppleScript automates this process. Copy and paste the code into AppleScript Editor and save the script either as an application or to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari and run it from the Scripts menu.