How to browse forums without registration in Chrome or Chromium.

[TheAslan]

It's very simple at least if you're Chrome or Chromium user: (In my case I'm using Chromium in this example)

• Find your Chromium desktop or taskbar shortcut and right click it and select Properties.
• Then copy/paste this line to Target line after chrome.exe and with space: --user-agent="Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

• Like this: C:\Users\#Username\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe --user-agent="Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
• Then make sure of that Start in line is empty, then click Apply and OK.
• Now double click your customized shortcut and browse some forums, you should see yourself as a Google Bot.

[demoneye]

sound interesting , maybe i will try it

10x

[software182]

That's good :)

[T0nyB]

Nice trick! :) Thanks for sharing this. ^_^

I'm sure it will benefit a lot of users. :)

[YMCA22]

It's not seems to work.

I did every step and nothing. I still need to register to see contents

[calguyhunk]

You can change the user agent in ANY browser. Chrome, IE, FF. The easiest way to do it in FF is to either install an extension or go to about:config. :)

Now what I don't know is whether that will allow you to browse forums' members only content without logging in just like that ;)

Personally, I used to use BugMeNot to do the same but it's not working for the last few weeks after updating to Version 21 :(