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Firefox is forcing mobile version. (Win10) It's fine in other browsers.

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http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/blog/blog.jsp http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/FW-Home

Those sites specifically. The other browsers run it fine as normal, even the only version of Firefox ran it fine, I just updated and now this.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/blog/blog.jsp http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/FW-Home Those sites specifically. The other browsers run it fine as normal, even the only version of Firefox ran it fine, I just updated and now this.

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This is definitely bad user agent sniffing. I get the mobile page with Firefox 40 on Linux with a Firefox 40 user agent and not with a Firefox 39 or lower user agent.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Strange, same on Windows 7. Fortunately, both pages have a "full site" link at the bottom which fixes the display. Presumably this sets a cookie, though, so if the cookie is cleared the mobile display probably will return. I started looking at their browser detection script, but... it hurt my eyes.

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This is definitely bad user agent sniffing. I get the mobile page with Firefox 40 on Linux with a Firefox 40 user agent and not with a Firefox 39 or lower user agent.

Greatwalk
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I made myself a general.useragent.override string and set it to Firefox 39 so I'm good for now.

I'll try and contact the owners of the website. Thanks!