Reader G. pointed out that this feature is no longer supported. There was a regression found in branch 25 and it was marked as "won't fix" on 2013-11-01. :(
Bug 933959 - general.useragent.override.[domain] (about:config entry) stopped working
about:config in the URL2. Search for
general.useragent.site_specific_overrides3. Ensure its value is set to
true4.
Right-click -> New -> String5. Type
general.useragent.override.[domain].come.g. general.useragent.override.blogger.com
6. Enter the new user agent string
For example:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Nexus One
Build/ERE27) AppleWebkit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile
Safari/530.17
Extra:
* To check your current user agent, enter
about: in the URL* To revert your changes, right-click on
general.useragent.override.[domain].com -> Reset. The key will go away when you refresh the page.
11 comments:
Do you know if this works on Firefox for android?
I tested Firefox for Android version 20.0.1, while general.useragent.site_specific_overrides present and default to true, I couldn't get the override to work for http://whatsmyuseragent.com/
However, the non-domain-specific override (general.useragent.override) is working as expected. Note that you need to un-check Settings -> Request Desktop Site
For site specific overrides to work on Firefox for Android, both general.useragent.site_specific_overrides and general.useragent.enable_overrides have to be set to true.
I tried setting both options to true but it still does not work.
Since non-domain-specific override is working without setting general.useragent.enable_overrides, I wonder why you said it is needed for domain-specific override to work. Is it being documented somewhere?
I was mislead by comments in the code concerning general.useragent.enable_overrides and the fact that I was not using the current version of firefox, sorry. general.useragent.site_specific_overrides + general.useragent.override.* support in Firefox for Android landed with bug 768035, which is targeted for Firefox 22, and therefore is currently present and works in Aurora and Nightly.
No worries. Glad to hear it has been fixed already :)
After playing around with a few URI regex plugins for Firefox that didn't work, this is the simplest, most elegant solution! Thank you!
I also like how I'm not going to have to go mobile for non-Blogspot.com sites. thanks again!
Glad to hear it helped :)
Actually, your method works with wordpress.com blogs, but doesn't appear to make blogspot.com blogs load the mobile versions. Appending "?m=1" to a blogspot.com URL forces it to load the mobile version, but I'm not sure how blogspot.com automatically checks for mobile clients; it appears to use something different than detecting a mobile useragent. Any ideas? thanks
This option is no longer supported: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933959
Thanks G.! I updated my post accordingly.
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