Sunday, August 21, 2011

changing the User-Agent string for Android's web browser

Of course there are web-sites, that take into account, whether we visit them as Android or as Desktop or as iPhone or as iPad.
BTW: they all (but WTF is "Desktop") use the webkit rendering engine. Isn't that sort of funny? Firefox's rendering engine is different though.

So where do we change that setting?
Enter about:debug into the location bar. That opens ("Go") a few more entries within the browser's menu and its Settings submenu, one of them is Debug, there you find UAString. E.g. Desktop will allow you to start mail.google.com as within a normal browser, i.e. including the Contacts, whereas Android gives you a leaner version of mail.google.com.

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