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How do I PERMANENTLY, I repeat, PERMANENTLY disable mobile user agent?

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I don't want to see the crippled mobile websites on my tablet ever again. Is there a way to permanently, (that means forever), make websites think that I'm on a desktop computer and not on a mobile? Tablet is not a mobile phone but the Firefox developers don't know, do they? Thank you.

I don't want to see the crippled mobile websites on my tablet ever again. Is there a way to permanently, (that means forever), make websites think that I'm on a desktop computer and not on a mobile? Tablet is not a mobile phone but the Firefox developers don't know, do they? Thank you.

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Even though there is the mobile and tablet UA's for mobile Firefox depending on screen size, some sites will give a mobile version as if you were using a phone or 5" or less and not say a 10" tablet.


There is the Phony extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/phony/

View mobile or desktop versions of sites, by impersonating other browsers' useragent headers.

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Even though there is the mobile and tablet UA's for mobile Firefox depending on screen size, some sites will give a mobile version as if you were using a phone or 5" or less and not say a 10" tablet.


There is the Phony extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/phony/

View mobile or desktop versions of sites, by impersonating other browsers' useragent headers.

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Thanks James..