DotNetBrowser 3.1.0

Customizing User-Agent Client Hints

Traditionally, the User-Agent string has been used to retrieve information about a user’s browser or device. However, User-Agent Client Hints offer a more privacy-friendly approach, allowing browsers to limit the amount of information exposed by default. In Chromium, for example, the User-Agent string now provides only basic details, while more specific data is accessible through the User-Agent Client Hints API.

This version of DotNetBrowser introduces the ability to override the information returned via the User-Agent Client Hints API, giving you full control over what data is shared with websites.

Here’s an example of how to configure custom User-Agent Client Hints programmatically:

    UserAgentMetadata userAgentMetadata = new UserAgentMetadata.Builder
{
    Platform = "Windows",
    FullVersion = "133.0.6943.98",
    PlatformVersion = "10.0.0",
    BrandVersionList =
    { 
        new UserAgentBrandVersion.Builder 
            { Brand = "Chromium", Version = "133" }.Build() 
    },
    BrandFullVersionList =
    {
        new UserAgentBrandVersion.Builder
            { Brand = "Chromium", Version = "133.0.6943.98" }.Build()
    },
}.Build();

browser.UserAgentMetadata = userAgentMetadata;


  

Chrome extensions can add menu items to the context menu. We extended ShowContextMenuHandler to provide access to these menu items when Chromium attempts to show the context menu:

    browser.ShowContextMenuHandler = 
    new Handler<ShowContextMenuParameters, ShowContextMenuResponse>(p =>
    {
        var extensionMenuItems = p.ExtensionMenuItems;
        return ShowContextMenuResponse.Select(extensionMenuItems.First());
    });


  

Quality enhancements

In the off-screen rendering mode, the autofill suggestions are now accepted properly after selection.
The WPF BrowserView now respects the parent container size properly in the off-screen rendering mode.
In WinUI 3 off-screen, the combo box drop-down now opens and closes properly after moving the application window.
In WPF off-screen, the keyboard focus now leaves the BrowserView after pressing Shift+Tab.

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