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# User Agents & Custom User Agents

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/f891df320cad6800/browserlauncher_106ztwe.png)

**The User Agent string identifies the types of devices requesting online content. **

The server that the request is sent to will then determine the type of content to display, the layout, identify any re-directions for that device type, as well as use the information for analysing web-traffic.

You can find the setting for User Agent control under **Settings > Page & Content > User Agent** (Kiosk Browser) or **Settings > Browser > Page & Content > User Agent** (Kiosk Launcher).

![Page & Content Settings](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99f4d12b-e989-4521-a5e7-35225f7de1e6/236de513-8f71-4887-b087-fea458f31d99.png)

**Default User Agent**

By default, the WebView on which Kiosk Browser is based provides the user agent string, which is determined by various device properties. 

**Desktop User Agent**
You can set the User Agent to desktop which will force the page to load in desktop mode.

![User Agent Setting](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99f4d12b-e989-4521-a5e7-35225f7de1e6/9391a203-a80b-4522-aa64-050f3704513e.png)

**Custom User Agent**
To set a Custom User Agent, firstly you would need to select the option for this under **Settings > Page & Content >  User Agent**. (Kiosk Browser) or **Settings > Browser > Page & Content > User Agent** (Kiosk Launcher)

Once you have enabled the Custom User Agent, you will need to enter the string for the User Agent that you wish to use, under **Settings > Page & Content > Custom User Agent** (Kiosk Browser) or **Settings > Browser > Page & Content > Custom User Agent** (Kiosk Launcher)

![Custom User Agent](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99f4d12b-e989-4521-a5e7-35225f7de1e6/49a0109e-25aa-414b-84f7-b103b59862a5.png)

**Custom User Agent String**
As an example below, you can see the device User Agent has been set to that of a Windows 10 based PC using Edge Browser, the string for this would be:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246

![Custom User Agent String](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99f4d12b-e989-4521-a5e7-35225f7de1e6/95b12321-8fe2-446f-afa4-1fb33e806353.png)

Some example User Agent strings can be found [here](https://deviceatlas.com/blog/list-of-user-agent-strings).  This list is external and is by no means exhaustive, as there are millions of possible User Agents.

As with other Kiosk Browser/Launcher settings, the User Agent can also be defined under Profiles or Configurations in both remote management products.

![User Agent Settings (Remote Management Profile)](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99f4d12b-e989-4521-a5e7-35225f7de1e6/ad9dd4c7-ebf3-4645-96fa-30f42021c7fb.png)

There is some further external material regarding User Agents available to read [here](http://www.whoishostingthis.com/tools/user-agent/).