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Google Chrome being blocked by company firewall

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Mar 15, 202613026 views
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Problem

Yesterday I could use Google Chrome at work to access the internet and today it is being blocked by the firewall with an access denied error. IE and Firefox work fine from the same machine. Is there a way I can easily unblock Chrome so it works again?

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Fix for: Google Chrome being blocked by company firewall

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The blocking is probably being done using the browsers user agent string. You can change the user agent string using the --user-agent command line argument to impersonate IE8, for example use the following. "C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings…

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