Is Mobile View Switcher safe?

Low risk

Mobile View Switcher stores its configured User-Agent in each visited site's localStorage when enabled.

When mobile view is turned on, its content script runs on every site and writes the selected User-Agent to that page origin's localStorage under mobile-view-switcher-useragent. Page scripts on the site can read that extension-specific key and value, which the injected page script also uses to override navigator.userAgent.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

Benniv0.2.2Chrome Web Store
20Risk
Who publishes it

Benni - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 100k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.2.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on every site you visit

    *://*/*

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Block and redirect the requests your browser makes

    declarativeNetRequest

Updated 30 September 2026bmhfelbhbkeoldaiphchjibggnoodpcj