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User agent isn't randomly created by crawlee

I'm using the PuppeteerCrawler class and my expectation is that the user agent should be randomly generated whenever I create a new instance (or start a new run)

This is not what happens, instead, the same value is consistently used across runs 
 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9
 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9
How do I rotate the user agent? Sometimes, the user agent just looks like my normal laptop user agent as well. Not sure why.

Note, that I am also using Pupeteer extra. For reference, this is a simplified look at what my Instantion looks like. 

new PuppeteerCrawler({
    launchContext: {
      // !!! You need to specify this option to tell Crawlee to use puppeteer-extra as the launcher !!!
      launcher: puppeteerExtra,
      launchOptions: {
        // Other puppeteer options work as usual
        headless: false,
      },
    },
  })
new PuppeteerCrawler({
    launchContext: {
      // !!! You need to specify this option to tell Crawlee to use puppeteer-extra as the launcher !!!
      launcher: puppeteerExtra,
      launchOptions: {
        // Other puppeteer options work as usual
        headless: false,
      },
    },
  })
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