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Ask Chrome to pretend to be iPad

I'm sure I saw someone personalize iPad Safari in Chrome. Do you know how?

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Browsers identify themselves by the string "user agent" in the header of the HTTP request

You can change it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US&gl=US

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Here is a tutorial that shows how to do this. You just change the user agent just like ipad safari

Get iPad Interface Using Chrome User Agent String

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is mostly due to the user-agent string that the browser sends. When testing access scenarios, it is useful to impersonate other browsers, such as Safari or Mobile Safari, from a Windows PC. This can be done using Chrome using the following syntax when starting the application. This example represents the mobile safari browser on the iPhone. Try it -

 chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3"

You can add many user-agent strings to this syntax, and Google should find the right one.

This is very useful during testing, when you want to know how external servers work, when requests come from different browsers.

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