Friday, January 20, 2012

How to make Firefox Mobile identify itself as a Desktop Browser

Firefox Mobile has recently been released for the Android platform, but on my Toshiba Thrive tablet it insisted on identifying itself as a mobile browser. My tablet has a screen resolution of 1280x800, which is more that some netbooks, so I wanted Firefox to act as a standard browser. After doing a Google search for the subject and not finding anything I could use, I set out to do it myself, and it's pretty easy. All you need to do is download the add-on "Phony". Once you do that, go to the Preferences page of Firefox Mobile, and under User Agent, change that from Default to Desktop Firefox. That's all there is to it!

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