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[Suggestion] Add user agent switcher to the Steam Browser

Open uzigone opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Your system information

  • Steam client version: stable
  • SteamOS version: stable
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Opted into SteamOS beta?: No
  • Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When I open the Steam Browser, the user agent of the browser is the Valve Steam Gamepad, which obviously has its quirks. The main issue that I have is that I cannot open Battlefield 3 in Gaming mode because it opens the server browser in an actual browser, in Gaming Mode that is the Steam Browser, and when I try to join a game it's telling me to run Windows. If I could just change the user agent of the Steam Browser to a Windows machine I'd get Battlefield 3 running without any issues (In Desktop mode the game runs perfect)

It should be fairly easy to implement because as far as I understand the Steam Browser runs on Chromium, and Chromium has a built in user agent switcher.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Open Steam Browser
  2. Check User Agent.

uzigone avatar Aug 29 '22 11:08 uzigone