The million year old blog
15 Dec
Just a quick rant.
At the moment I use my Sony Android tablet more than any other gadget, and probably even more than my notebooks at times [because there is really quite a lot that the tablet is capable of]. Obviously, among the million and one things that I use the tablet for, I do a good deal of web surfing on it also.
Given that the tablet has a 9.4″ screen, very often I prefer to view the full/normal version of websites rather than the mobile versions. In fact sometimes the mobile versions look rather ridiculous on a screen of that size. However since the device is essentially a mobile device and it runs mobile versions of web browsers, I’m often forced into viewing the reduced versions. Usually there is the option to switch back to normal version, but somehow it doesn’t quite stick, and I’m forced back to mobile every time I go back to the homepage, change a language option or do just about anything. A good example of this are social networks like Facebook and Google+, which are currently annoying the heck out of me. And then of course there are websites that don’t even have the option of switching back…. *sigh*
So is it just me, or is anyone else currently bothered by this? Does anyone else think that this is pretty much a bug that needs to be fixed rather than a feature?
3 Responses for "Annoying Forced Mobile Versions of Websites"
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Add me to the list. I'm also EXTREMELY annoyed by this!
Aasemoon, your browser tells the webservers that it's a mobile browser. Check its settings, most have an option to declare themselves as desktop browsers as well
Ah, yes, I should probably have mentioned that I do use the option to "request desktop site". It works pretty much the same way that manually switching to full version does, temporarily. And that's regardless of which browser I use. Other than that I'm afraid there is no other option to be set on the browser[s].
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