If you want to alter user agents use an addon like Chameleon.
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I dunno if you can easily just with the config.
You probably know it but that’s what I use
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Have you tried methods this site recommends?:
How to Change User-Agent in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and more
It tells the manual way to change useragent in Firefox using general.useragent.override. Haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know if it works.
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Thanks @otherbarry and @linuxislife for your replies!
I thought if it could possible to do it via about:configs that would be preferable. I have tried arkenfox’ user.js in some Firefox’ profiles and sure it changes the useragent but I haven’t really gone through the whole file to see what modifications it exactly does to accomplish this.
@mardi,
Thanks for the input!
No I haven’t looked at that site before. It surely sounds promising. I’ll look into it to see if I can mange this by changing some configuration.
If not possible, then I would use one of the addons suggested. I have used the one suggested by @linuxislife at some point but not Chameleon.
Thank you guys for your attention and suggestions! I appreciate it.
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Are you sure it is setting a user agent? It may just be enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting which I believe sets a fixed user agent.
This is what I have with arkenfox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
This is without:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
It changes the OS and nothing else so it might very well be the case that I have made the wrong assumption .
I’ll try this to see if I get the same string as with arkenfox.
update:
You are Right!
Setting privacy.resistFingerprinting to true, gives:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
I surely must have confounded the two concepts. This is actually good enough for me. But I’ll see what the site @mardi linked to says about changing the user agent. I’ll update on that later on.
Hi guys,
Have you taken a look at the new feature in Firefox 93: Firefox suggest?
Firefox Suggest also contains sponsored suggestions from vetted partners. For instance, if someone types in “vans”, we might show a sponsored result for Vans shoes on eBay
We are also developing contextual suggestions. These aim to enhance and speed up your searching experience. To deliver contextual suggestions, Firefox will need to send Mozilla new data, specifically, what you type into the search bar, city-level location data to know what’s nearby and relevant, as well as whether you click on a suggestion and which suggestion you click on.
What is your take on this?
Can’t wait till LIbreWolf will cut it out 
For one simple reason:
Historically (unfortunately) all kinds of “suggests” be it Google or whatever else end up being a tool for censorship and swaying opinions, even if it looked harmless in the beginning.
And now it’s one of the biggest problems worldwide already, user nobody asked for more of that stuff. 
P.S. Oh, and obviously BLOAT!!!111 
A bit more details here:
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Now it glows in the dark even more 
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That you should disable it:
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Funny thing: I don’t seem to have it at all in my Firefox?
How come?
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 93.0
What does it show in “about”? Is it possible the running version is different than the installed version?
They’re already standing behind you, don’t they? 
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I almost turned around to look 
You uncheck everything under "Address Bar – Suggest ?
Yes, I personally uncheck everything.
I don’t save history in the first place and I don’t want suggestions on most of those other things.
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I suspected that some settings in Arken-fox’ user.js might be the reason that I am not seeing the “Contextual suggestions” option. It looks like it:
/* 0807: disable location bar contextual suggestions [FF92+]
* [SETTING] Privacy & Security>Address Bar>Contextual Suggestions
* [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-suggest/ ***/
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", false);
Perhaps but I think that would just set them to false/unchecked, not remove them the UI. Also, you don’t have the updated header for that section.